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Mar 25, 2009 | Science

Color-Coordinated Courtship

Previous Article Enlarge Image Mismatch. When these two finches mate, they'll produce an overabundance of sons.

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Mon Mar 23, 2009

Scientific American

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.

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Sat Mar 21, 2009

Physics Blog

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.

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Thu Mar 19, 2009

PhysOrg Weblog

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.

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Fri Feb 13, 2009

ScienceBlogs

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 .

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Tue Jan 13, 2009

Philly.com

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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