Testosterone Turns Male Junco Birds Into Blustery Hunks -- And Bad Dads:
The ability to ramp up testosterone production appears to drive male dark-eyed juncos to find and win mates, but it comes with an evolutionary cost. Big fluctuations in testosterone may also cause males to lose interest in parenting their own young, scientists have learned.
Blind To Beauty: How And Where Do We Process Attractiveness?:
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but according to research conducted by a UBC medical student, eye candy fails to find a sweet tooth in patients with a rare disorder.
After Drought, Diversity Dries Up And Ponds All Look The Same:
An ecologist at Washington University in St. Louis has discovered that after ponds dry up through drought in a region, when they revive, the community of species in each pond tends to be very similar to one another, like so many suburban houses made of ticky tacky.
A Gene Divided Reveals The Details Of Natural Selection:
In a molecular tour de force, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have provided an exquisitely detailed picture of natural selection as it occurs at the genetic level.
just posted on junco paper, really interesting stuff...