Largest Web-Spinning Spider Discovered Oct 23, 2009
Spider sex One puzzler the team turned up: While the females were gaining in fecundity, males seemed to be losing their sexual prowess. Sex between male and female Nephila spiders typically leaves females unable to re-mate and males castrated. (Newsmax)
The Ghanaian Way: Starve the Living, Splurge on the Dead!! Sep 13, 2009
The issue of fecundity caused a rift in her marriage, and it was also the source of feuding with her husband, who, resultantly tagged her useless. Mired in poverty, she always packed her belongings in empty flour bags anytime she was forced out of her marital home by separation. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Fresno's Gallery 25 marks milestone with new show Sep 3, 2009
There's an earthy fecundity to Bartolo's three-dimensional works -- a feel of gestation, of imminent birth. Just beyond hangs some of the current work of longtime Fresno artist Joyce Aiken, an original member. (Fresno Bee)
Out of the Shadows Aug 31, 2009
What happened at Bear Stearns or at Goldman Sachs affected the mosquito levels in Riverside County, California (the insects breed with special fecundity in abandoned swimming pools). With a rare cohesive power, the Cockburns fill in the lines of connection. (New Yorker)
What it’s like in a country without war Aug 10, 2009
Each morning you can spot a new, rolled-up banana leaf and watch it on and off all day until it unfurls fully, a lime-green flag of fecundity. On the dirt road, our neighbor goes by with his oxen dragging the trunk of a pechote tree - a wood that, like the native teak, resists termites. (Boston Globe)
LETTERS: NCT, August 5, 2009 Aug 5, 2009
" ().Further, from a 2008 study: Researchers Iemmola and Camperio, in a comparison of "the family trees of homosexuals with heterosexuals, reported a significant increase in fecundity in the females related to the homosexual probands (see note) from the maternal line but not in those related from the paternal one. This suggested that genetic factors that are partly linked to the X-chromosome and that influence homosexual orientation in males are not selected against because they increase... (North County Times)
CLAIM: Fish are shrinking in response to global warming... Jul 21, 2009
"Size is a fundamental characteristic that is linked to a number of biological functions, such as fecundity - the capacity to reproduce.". Smaller fish tend to produce fewer eggs. (The Drudge Report)
Schwarzenegger says he'll carry out ruling... May 27, 2009
" Daedalus; Spring2007, Vol. 136 Issue 2, p47-57, 11p "There is a long-standing debate on the role of genetic factors influencing homosexuality because the presence of these factors contradicts the Darwinian prediction according to which natural selection should progressively eliminate the factors that reduce individual fecundity and fitness. Recently, however, Camperio Ciani, Corna, and Capiluppi (Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 271, 22172221,... (The Drudge Report)
Why the Vow of Celibacy Is More Important Than Ever May 16, 2009
In the Catholic tradition, sexual fecundity is a good thing. Such Catholic countries as Brazil, France, Italy, and Spain are hardly known for their puritanical sexual mores. (Slate)
Ask the Experts: Can someone live to be a supercentenarian? Apr 2, 2009
In centenarians and supercentenarians people over 110 you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life. These women will still be having periods and producing eggs later than the average female. (Scientific American)
Take A Darwinian Approach To A Dangerous World: Ecologist Preaches 'Natural' Security For Homeland Defense Feb 24, 2009
And, he says, it's a mode of thinking informed by Charles Darwin's insights into life's struggle for survival and fecundity that more security analysts would be wise to adopt. At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago, Sagarin has organized a 90-minute symposium on the subject, to be held Friday morning, Feb. 13. (Science Daily)
BETTER LIFE: More on sexual health Feb 11, 2009
"Researchers are now revealing, for example, that animals may engage in same-sex couplings to diffuse social tensions, to better protect their young or to maintain fecundity when opposite-sex partners are unavailableor simply because it is fun.". Apparently female bonobos can kiss and like it, too. (USA Today -- Life)
