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How Dinosaurs Shaped Fruit Evolution

What do humans have in common with the dinosaurs that trampled through ancient forests? It turns out that both may have a surprising impact on the size of seeds in the fruits growing around them. When ...
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Why and how does personality emerge? Studying the evolution of individuality using thousands of fruit flies

As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to understand the evolution of individual differences in fruit fly behavior – the building blocks of personality. My experiments involved measuring how my tiny subjects ...
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Like your apples and peaches? An NAU researcher says you might have a dinosaur to thank

Chris Doughty, an associate professor in NAU's informatics department, was writing a paper for a conference and had the idea to test a theory about sauropods, forests and fruit. Doughty created a ...
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Fruit bats and bat fruits: the evolution of fruit scent in relation to the foraging behaviour of bats in the New and Old World tropics

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.12101/abstract,http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/1365-2435.12101/asset/fec12101.pdf?v=1&t=hgr3ltf3&s ...
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Why and how does personality emerge? Studying the evolution of individuality using thousands of fruit flies

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Shraddha Lall, Harvard University (THE CONVERSATION) As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to ...