Friday Weird Science: Woo the ladeez with your hot collection of dinosaur eggs!

August 3, 2012, 9:49 am by Scientific American: Mind and Brain

Sci is at Neurotic Physiology today , and has her delicate little claws out to shred a study on how dudes collect things because of sexual selection. The entire study can be summed up thus:1. collecting is a dude thing [More]

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