Friday Weird Science: Woo the ladeez with your hot collection of dinosaur eggs!
By Scicurious
This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American
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
2. the dude thing must be sexual
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3. DINOSAUR EGGS
4.
5. ...PROFIT.
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