Washington, Nov 4 : Parents don''t take up children''s duties on their own, it''s the genes that guide them to take up different roles in kids'' upbringing, finds a new study, which establishes the fact that different roles of mothers and fathers are influenced by genetics
Conducted by the Universities of Exeter and Edinburgh, the study shows how variation in where males and females put their parenting effort reflects different genetic influences for each sex.
The study, based in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides, can be applied to other species and possibly humans, said the researchers.
Specialised male and female roles are common in species in which both parents take responsibility for raising offspring.
Washington, Nov 4 : When it comes to settling disputes over access to fertile females, antelopes click their knees to ward off the competition, according to a new study.
The study, conducted on eland antelopes, has revealed the dominance displays used by males to settle disputes over access to fertile females, without resorting to genuine violence.
Led by Jakob Bro-Jorgensen from the Zoological Society of London and Torben Dabelsteen from the University of Copenhagen, researchers studied antelopes within a
400km2 area of Kenya.
They discovered that the males (bulls) use some signals to make competitors aware of their fighting ability, based on three different factors, body size, age and aggression.
Brussels - A detailed French set of proposals on how to reform the global financial system was at the top of the agenda on Tuesday as European Union finance ministers met in Brussels.
The plans "can still be better, but it's a good start ... I think we'll turn them into European plans," Dutch Finance Minister Wouter Bos said as the meeting opened.
His Austrian counterpart, Wilhelm Molterer, backed that sentiment, saying that "some countries might judge one or another detail differently, but the direction is absolutely right."
Washington, Nov 4 : Holly Madison has said that Hugh Hefner shouldn’t have felt bad after their split because the Playboy founder should have known that she was unhappy with him.
Madison ended her seven-year-old relationship with Hefner after she was sure that they didn’t have a future together.
In fact, the Playboy stunner had once been rumoured to be pregnant with the tycoon’s baby.
London, November 4 : An advertising agency has turned U. S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama white, and his Republican counterpart John McCain black, in a set of ads posted around New York City..
The work by Ad agency Grey NYC also contains a slogan between the two “skin colour-switched” candidates, saying: "Let the issues be the issue".
Nearly 80 kg of deadly RDX was used in the Guwahati blast alone.
According to officials of the forensic laboratory those explosives were used through three maruti cars planted at the blast site. Each of the cars were loaded with approximately 25 kgs of RDX.
"Such large quantity of RDX were never used to carry out explosions in Assam before as Ammonium Nitrate, with plasticers as propellants and Programmable Time Devices (PTD) were usually used to carry out a blast," said an official involved in the investigation process.
This was the maximum amount of explosive used for blasts in the state.
Earlier the highest amount was 10 kgs used to carry out explosion at Dhemaii during Independence Day celebration in 2004.
Washington, Nov 4 : Holly Madison has said that Hugh Hefner shouldn’t have felt bad after their split because the Playboy founder should have known that she was unhappy with him.
London, November 4 : An advertising agency has turned U. S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama white, and his Republican counterpart John McCain black, in a set of ads posted around New York City..
