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May 7, 2012
Dr. Abouheif and his research team are crawling all over the news again! This time, it's about water strider sex...
NATURE News: Pond skaters hooked in sex struggle.
DISCOVER Magazine: Male water striders evolved antennae to grab females by the eyes.
Radio-Canada: L'évolution sexuelle des patineurs sous la loupe.
MSNBC: Male water bugs sport hooks, spikes - and that's just for sex.
Le Monde: Chez l'araignée d'eau, la guerre des sexes passe par les antennes.
New Scientist: Zoologger: Jesus bugs evolved hooks for grappling eyes.
CBC Radio - "Quirks & Quarks": Water Striders old Genes |
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The Boston Globe
(Article published Oct. 25, 2009)
Islam's Darwin Problem: In the Muslim world, creationism is on the rise
“For evolution in the Islamic world, it’s very unfortunate that Darwin was a white Brit, because otherwise it would have gained wider acceptance,” says Ehab Abouheif, an evolutionary biologist at McGill who has spoken publicly about reconciling his Muslim faith and evolution.
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Photo credit: Kiyoko Gotanda |
March 23, 2010 - Tele Quebec Documentary
The Abouheif lab was recently filmed as part of the Tele Quebec documentary on "le Code Chastenay", a program focusing on scientific research in Quebec. The topic was on Social Harmony in Ant Commnuities. The video is now available for viewing.
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September 24, 2009: McGill's ant man (McGill Reporter)
We make war, enslave our enemies and police the sexual behavior of others. Are we humans? No, explains McGill evolutionary biologist Ehab Abouheif, we’re ants. Ants are a particularly rich area of study for evolutionary biology, because their reproductive strategies at first seemed to be a rebuke to Charles Darwin’s theories of natural selection
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November 19, 2008 - McGill researchers prove Darwin right about how evolution can affect a whole group
Evolutionary biologists at McGill University have discovered molecular signals that can maintain social harmony in ants by putting constraints on their fertility. Dr. Ehab Abouheif, of McGill's Department of Biology, and post-doctoral researcher, Dr. Abderrahman Khila, have discovered how evolution has tinkered with the genes of colonizing insects like ants to keep them from fighting amongst themselves over who gets to reproduce.
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