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To discuss the use of stars and planets with regard to the development of calendars
(m20213)
Author:
Siyavula Uploaders
Subject:
Science and Technology
Language:
English
Popularity:
61.04%
Revised:
2009-03-12
Revisions:
New
To discuss the ways in which organisms change over time
(m20259)
Author:
Siyavula Uploaders
Subject:
Science and Technology
Language:
English
Popularity:
65.44%
Revised:
2009-03-12
Revisions:
New
To distinguish between herbivores, carnivores and omnivores
(m20147)
Author:
Siyavula Uploaders
Subject:
Science and Technology
Language:
English
Popularity:
91.01%
Revised:
2009-03-11
Revisions:
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To distinguish the most important groups of materials
(m20311)
Author:
Siyavula Uploaders
Subject:
Science and Technology
Language:
English
Popularity:
53.93%
Revised:
2009-03-13
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To Eat or to Mate? Sexual Cannibalism in Mantodea and Arachnid Species
(m34755)
Author:
Mimus Polyglottus
Keywords:
Arachnid
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cannibalism
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Mantodea
,
sexual selection
Summary:
Fatal attraction takes on an entirely new meaning in the behavior of sexual cannibalism. In many spider and mantis species, mating can turn fatal when the female consumes the male before, during, or immediately after copulation. This curious behavior has widely contested adaptive value. Males incur obvious fitness costs from ... selection pressures
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Fatal attraction takes on an entirely new meaning in the behavior of sexual cannibalism. In many spider and mantis species, mating can turn fatal when the female consumes the male before, during, or immediately after copulation. This curious behavior has widely contested adaptive value. Males incur obvious fitness costs from being consumed because it prevents them from mating in the future. Females may also compromise their own mating opportunity because spider and mantis females often cannibalize males before copulation. A variety of hypotheses have arisen to explain the evolution of sexual cannibalism, including an economic model that depicts the cost-benefit conditions needed for the behavior to have fitness value. Alternate sexual selection and predator-prey hypotheses emphasize the interaction between sexual dimorphism and cannibalism during mating. Hypotheses differ in that some consider the behavior to be adaptive for individuals, while others view it as a non-adaptive by-product of separate traits’ evolution. Hypotheses also differ in the extent to which they view the behavior as a conflict of interest between the sexes (more beneficial for one sex than the other). Ultimately, no hypothesis appear to fit all cases; instead different explanations may apply to different species depending on environmental conditions and species characteristics. Overall, in both mantises and spiders, sexual cannibalism highlights proximate and ultimate causes underlying the sexes’ asymmetric reproductive tactics, and may illustrate a compelling intersection between natural and sexual selection pressures
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Subject:
Science and Technology
Language:
English
Popularity:
82.99%
Revised:
2010-07-15
Revisions:
3
To emphasis the sensible use of the resources of the earth
(m20318)
Author:
Siyavula Uploaders
Subject:
Science and Technology
Language:
English
Popularity:
3.88%
Revised:
2009-03-13
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To examine the magnetic field of a bar magnet
(m20371)
Author:
Siyavula Uploaders
Subject:
Science and Technology
Language:
English
Popularity:
3.22%
Revised:
2009-03-14
Revisions:
New
To explain convection as a natural phenomenon
(m20158)
Author:
Siyavula Uploaders
Subject:
Science and Technology
Language:
English
Popularity:
69.49%
Revised:
2009-03-11
Revisions:
New
To explain how fossils were formed
(m20249)
Author:
Siyavula Uploaders
Subject:
Science and Technology
Language:
English
Popularity:
57.95%
Revised:
2009-03-12
Revisions:
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To explain that all matter occupies space and has volume and mass
(m20459)
Author:
Siyavula Uploaders
Subject:
Science and Technology
Language:
English
Popularity:
85.56%
Revised:
2009-03-16
Revisions:
New
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