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Nature 435, 1167-1168 (30 June 2005) | doi:10.1038/4351167a; Published online 29 June 2005
Evolutionary biology: Males from Mars
David Queller1
Abstract
In an ant species — or is it two species? — females are produced only by females and males only by males. Explanations of this revelation have to invoke some decidedly offbeat patterns of natural selection.
That men and women sometimes seem like different species is the stock in trade of pop psychologists and relationship gurus. Some go even farther: men are from Mars and women are from Venus.
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