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Go see it here: a blog carnival devoted to the best ecology and environmental science posts from across the blogosphere. This might be a nice complement to Tangled Bank…

In an interesting paper published in the Jan, 2007 issue of Hormones and Behavior, researchers describe a phenomenon they claim is unique to human females; their overt display of fertilty. Specifically, around the time of maximum fertility, women show enhanced “self-grooming” behavior and dress in a more provacative manner in an apparent attempt to solicit […]

EDIT: I just found a paper (posted here)estimating the rate of human EPC to be between

Scoop out their sperm!!! I’m writing a series on human behavioral ecology over here, and am currently writing about sperm competition. Obviously, any strategy that enhances your likelihood of fertilization should be strongly favored by natural selection. In particular, I was thinking of probabilistic strategies that enhance the likelihood that your sperm does the job […]

A.K.A smelly t-shirt experiment revisited. These experiments basically ask women to evaluate the “sexiness” of a man’s body odor. Turns out, women consistently rated odors of men with dissimilar MHC genes to be most attractive. Here is a link to some background info. Similar studies have been done in mice and other primates and show […]