courtship
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RIP Dave Wolverton, Who Gave Us the Enduring Star Wars Legacy of The Courtship of Princess Leia
John David Wolverton, the author behind the Runelords fantasy saga, Ravenspell, and more — as well as the author of one of the most famous Star Wars expanded universe stories around — has passed away at the age of 64.
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Catherine Scott Spent All Of Friday Afternoon Waiting For Her Spiders To Have Sex
Catherine Scott is a graduate student working toward her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. She’s studying the courtship behaviour of black widow spiders. That means that her experiments often involve waiting for spiders to have sex.
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Menopause May Be Why You Want A Romantic Relationship
Menopause is one of the oddest features of human reproductive biology. Not the hot flashes or the forgetfulness, but the fact that older women lose the ability to have babies. Now researchers say that once it appeared, menopause may have had a ripple effect on human mating that helped create the human pair-bond.
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The Biggest Kangaroos Evolved Long Arms To Fight Over Females
Male kangaroos and wallabies, like a lot of seemingly quiet grazing animals, get into knock-down drag-out fights over females. They obviously don’t have antlers or horns to spar with, but they’re perfectly willing to grapple rivals with their forelimbs and kick the crap out of each other with their big hind feet.