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30 Jul 2013


A study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences compares mortality and fertility data for seven species of wild primates to that of a human population of hunter-gatherers.

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A further paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes a novel mechanism of sex determination among South American rodents which have both XY males and XY females as normal components of the population.


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