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When is it better for a gene to cause a biased sex ratio?

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From where did the selfish gene get its selfishness?

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Can vaccines drive viruses to evolve? If so, how?

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Kleiber's law and Bergmann's rule

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Are there mammalian species in which the male makes no contribution after coitus?

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When does a virus become a different species?

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Resource recommendation: a good book explaining and evaluating the evidence for evolution?

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Is there are evolutionary explanation for why humans and primates are ticklish? How might it have evolved?

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Toxoplasma gondii

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Why do these 2 dots frequently occur in dogs' eyebrows? Does it serve/served any advantage?

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Are there some natural instances of thermosensitizer?

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Do mutations that cause the loss of a complex trait occur more often than mutations causing gain of a complex traits?

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What were the three dinosaur evolutions and do they imply that bipedalism could have evolved multiple times in hominins?

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How did Aposematism evolve?

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