As an EAFS volunteer, I don’t really have a “typical day”. Some days I am building a permaculture garden and surveying the tree nurseries of my reforestation team, and other days I am meeting with the women’s cooperative that I helped to create and running my girls club at the middle school.
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by Lisa Barrett Sexual conflict is the clash between evolutionary interests of males and females. It stems from anisogamy, the discrepant sizes of the male and female gametes (sperm and eggs, respectively). Think: eggs are bigger and more costly to produce; sperm is cheap and plentiful. These gametic differences lead to (sometimes) opposing reproductive interests and strategies for the sexes– a
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What happens when you don’t see things from the animal’s perspective? A conservation failure. Unfortunately there are quite a few examples of conservation attempts that failed, because their leaders lacked an understanding about some aspect of behavior.
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Paul Ogola, who plays Jela on Netflix’s hit Sense8 show, shares Kenya life and acting on Sense8.
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Learn how the Teacher Institute of Evolutionary Science provides free resources, labs, workshops and scientists to school teachers.
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After the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, mammals became the dominant terrestrial life form on our planet.
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As a self-proclaimed critical thinking nerd, Bill Nye balances optimism and scientific curiosity, to turn all obstacles into opportunities, so that possibilities of our world become limitless in his new book UNSTOPPABLE. Just as World War II called an earlier generation to greatness, so the climate crisis is calling today’s rising youth to action: to create a better future. Nye comes off
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Although I love research, I’ve realized that my real passion lies in getting folks engaged with a project or an idea–we can’t continue to publish studies in a scientific vacuum and assume that the world will change.
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See the intimate lives of birds as never before! Laura Erikson and Marie Read document the family lives of more than 50 common North American birds through breathtaking close-up photography.
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Jennifer Ackerman has been writing about science, nature, and human biology for almost three decades. Ackerman is a contributor to Scientific American, National Geographic, The New York Times, and many other publications. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Nonfiction, a Bunting Fellowship, and a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Birds, she shows, are
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