What’s the story of love?”
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Daphnia pulex • Photo by Paul Hebert (CC BY 2.5)
He fleas and she fleas
Has there ever been a more astute observer of the war between the sexes than James Thurber?
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Birds do it. Bees do it. Even the blossoms in the trees do it.
Can a primrose be led down the primrose path?
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The real mystery of human life
Question: Why does it take 200 million male sperm to fertilize a single female egg?
Helicodiceros muscivorus, or dead-horse arum • Photo by emmapatsie (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Hooray for plant sex
Panegyric. There’s a word that’s not used much anymore. Elaborate public praise. A formal composition intended as a compliment.
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Love as defined by genetic script
This week, Science Musings offers Valentine’s Day advice to the lovelorn.
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By nature, man can turn it off
The teaser on the cover of the August [2000] issue of Scientific American was irresistible: “Men’s Sexual Circuitry.”
Replica of a giant squid at the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan • Photo by Momotarou2012 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Even giant squid do it
From southern Australia comes news of the sex life of the giant squid.
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Why is all this sex necessary anyway?
“What’s the story of love?” I posed the question to Dr. Henry Testosterone, noted evolutionary biologist.
Detail from “The Old Man in Love” by Lucas Cranach the Elder (ca. 1530)
And now, the dirty-old-man gene
Stop the presses! Scientist makes astounding discovery!