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Doug Emlen

Dung Beetle

For animals, and humans, having bigger weapons can keep you from having to fight at all

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In the battle for physical and sexual supremacy, human tactics haven’t progressed much past the lowly dung beetle. We may have brains capable of producing art and science, and we don’t spend our days hauling around dung (well, most of us don’t, anyway), but otherwise — not much has changed.

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