Sexy fertile stags sire more sons

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Sexiest parents deliver average offspring

Sexy males sire dowdy daughters and attractive females bear insipid sons – in fruit flies, at least.

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Women with curvy figures are likely to be brighter than waif-like counterparts and may well produce more intelligent offspring, a US study suggests.

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In two separate labs, Chinese scientists claim they were able to use skin cells that produced live offspring. This is no joke!

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A Polish politician has criticised his local zoo for acquiring a "gay" elephant named Ninio who prefers male companions and will probably not procreate, local media reported today.

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When there is an unrealized threat of disease during pregnancy, mothers produce less aggressive sons with more efficient immune systems. Study in mice.

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Excerpt: Josef Fritzl, the Austrian electrician who raped and incarcerated his daughter in his cellar and fathered seven children by her, will plead not guilty to charges of murder and slavery.

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Attractive fathers do not pass their looks on to their sons but they will hand their good looks down to their daughters, research shows.

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Food and milk from the offspring of cloned animals may have entered the U.S. food supply, the U.S. government said on Tuesday, but it would be impossible to know because there is no difference between cloned and conventional products.

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Bumbershoot Weekend Preview: Tentative Schedule

This weekend I'll be traveling with my partner in crime to Seattle for the sold out Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival. Just looking at the breadth of this festival strikes fatigue in my bones.

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The pressures of being a bit of a hunk on the African savannah are revealed in a new study. The sex life of the topi antelope is compressed into one month of the year on courtship grounds known as 'leks'.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Parents have been doting over their offspring for a very, very long time, it seems.

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And a quizz for all who are interested. The following two images represent the babies of a certain animal. Which is the animal?

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July 6, 2007 -- People in the U.S. show a slight baby gender preference for having a boy instead of a girl if they were only able to have one child. That's according to a new Gallup poll on baby gender preferences. The telephone poll, conducted in June, included about 1,000 U.S.

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It is the news Britain's Vicky Pollards might use to justify their behaviour. Sleeping around can improve a female's chances of having healthier offspring, research shows.

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Pollution, toxins and medications all linked as a cause of hereditary problems in generations of laboratory rats without any evident change in their DNA coding.

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"Female pronghorn antelope are able to recognise good genes when they see them in a potential mate, despite an absence of visible male ornaments that reveal which are the fitter. And their offspring reap significant benefits, researchers found."

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A four-page article from TIME Magazine: "You don't have to be a biologist or an anthropologist to see how closely the great apes - gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans - resemble us.

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The ratio of females to males in a species is a topic that interested Darwin, but how such ratios evolve left him puzzled.

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Fawns are keenly tuned to their mothers' voices, but female fallow deer can't recognize their own offspring based on sound alone, a new study finds.

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Comparative studies have studied testosterone levels and related them to mating systems and aggression, but very few studies have attempted to relate testosterone to fitness, that is, the combination of lifetime reproductive success and survival, in the wild or experimentally.

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Scientists in Ireland may have found the country's most fertile male, with more than 3 million men worldwide among his offspring.

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