There is no alternative way to receive information about our environment besides our senses, and only from our senses are we able to act in our environment. This is a consistent law of life on Earth, affecting the lives of…
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Recap – Everything We’ve Learned So Far
During this five week blogging period, we have discussed insects with cognitive maps and landmarks, birds with magnetoreception, mammals with path integration in the absence of landmarks, and fish with hydrostatic pressure. For our final blog post, we will be…
Steroid Hormones and Monogamy – A Complex Relationship
In the last post, the social implications of the neuropeptides vasopressin and oxytocin were synthesized in order to question their role in the occurrence of monogamy. In this post, the focus will be on steroid hormones such as testosterone and…
The Aggressive Side of the “Love Molecule”
In the previous posts, a broad overview of the evolution of monogamy was described. Sexual behavior and parental care were compared in several different classes of animals, and different theories for the evolution of monogamy were discussed. These were ultimate…
The Case Of The Web-Jacking Wasp
What kind of good-for-nothing wasp can’t even build its own cocoon?