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Highly sexist damselflies

For natural selection, it is not enough to survive. It is also needed to leave descendents. “And among the dragonflies and damselflies, this idea is confirmed with great determination” says the biologist Cláudio Patto, graduate student at Campinas State University, SP, Brazil. Dragonflies’ females store the sperm until fecundation, what happens only when she lays [...]
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