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Email: Stuart Blackman - stuart.blackman@talk21.com News from The Scientist 2003, 4(1):20031001-01
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Where there are conflicts of interests there often are evolutionary arms races, an escalation of adaptation. Though well documented between predators and prey (and hostile world powers), arms races have proved difficult to pin down when it comes to another area of life, which theory tells us should be rife with conflicts of interests. But, according to two papers in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, just such a conflict of sexual interests has driven an arms race between male and female bedbugs that has led to the evolution of a unique organ.
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