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Burying beetle larvae have evolved to need the nursery their parents build
Parents of Nicrophorus vespilloides shave and disinfect a carcass, changing both its smell and its microbes. A related beetle whose parents skip that work does fine without it, and that contrast is the study's real evidence.
Publishers:phys.org
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives58
- Confidence