Mar 25, 2009 | Science
Previous Article Enlarge Image Mismatch. When these two finches mate, they'll produce an overabundance of sons.
Bird Controls Offspring's Gender
A report in the journal Science shows that at least one species of bird, the Gouldian finch, has the capacity to choose the sex of its offspring.
Researchers work in Ghana to create biofuels from native tree seeds
From left to right, top to bottom the seeds are: Delonix regia, Jatropha curcas, Ricinus communis, Azadirachta indica and Balanites aegyptiaca.
Sons or daughters? Female finches use head colour to decide
Researchers studying the behaviour of the stunningly coloured Gouldian finch have made an exciting discovery - females of the species deliberately overproduce sons when breeding with a male of a different head colour.
Pagel on Darwin [Greg Laden's Blog]
Mark Pagel, evolutionary theorist extraordinaire, has published an Insight piece in Nature on Natural selection 150 years on .
Feltsman returns to his Russian roots
When pianist Vladimir Feltsman made his high-profile 1987 emigration from what was then the Soviet Union, music connoisseurs predicted his playing would become Westernized in no time - even before he downplayed ...
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