Tag Archives: reproductive success

Raising boys – Not for the faint of heart

Posted on 30 Mar, 2020 by Kathleen Grogan

According to all of my parent friends, raising girls is quite different from raising boys, from the toys to the tantrums, the clothes to the bathroom habits, even for the most liberal, gender-neutral of my friends. In most sexually dimorphic … Continue reading →

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Signatures of the reproductive lottery

Posted on 6 May, 2016 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

In marine populations, effective population sizes are usually several orders of magnitude lower than the census size. This difference is thought to be driven by high fecundity, variation in reproductive success and pronounced early mortality, resulting in genetic drift across generations. In … Continue reading →

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