Do subordinate ant workers really forgo reproduction? Shit et al. showed that in a clonal ant species, isolated subordinates can match dominants in fecundity with no apparent cost to longevity.
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/739956
Jane Austen (1775-1817) English author
Letter (1817-02-20) to Fanny Austen-Knight
On Fanny's aunt, Mrs. Sophia Deedes, having birthed an eighteenth child.
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Phenotypic traits can be studied in fossils, but can their evolution be quantified from the fossil record? Liow et al. show that time series of fecundity and partial mortality from fossil and living bryozoans of New Zealand link to micro/macroevolution.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/731332
The main mechanisms driving this pattern are still debated but together with an increase in adult body chamber volume, it must have related to a fundamental change in #reproductive #strategy toward higher #fecundity early in the #evolutionary history of ammonoids. This might have played an important role in their subsequent #success as well as their #demise. #paleobiology #fossils #paleontology
American Naturalist
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