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3/19/13, "$384,949 Federal Study Looks at 'Plasticity in Duck Penis Length'," CNS News, Eric Scheiner
"The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $384,949 grant to
Yale University for a study on “Sexual Conflict, Social Behavior and the
Evolution of Waterfowl Genitalia”, according to the recovery.gov website.
The grant description says,“The project examines how reproductive
morphology covaries with season, age, and social environment in a
diverse sample of duck species that differ in ecology, territoriality
and breeding system."
The grant was made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus package.
The project has been receiving money from the NSF since 2009 and is slated for funding through July of this year....
The NSF grant abstract states, “Broader impacts of the research will be international, national, local, and personal."
Among those having a personal experience with the study are young
minorities. “The project will incorporate high school students from
under-represented minorities through the Yale University EVOLUTIONISTS
program,” the NSF grant page says.
E-mail and phone attempts by CNSNews.com to contact the study’s
Principal Research Investigator, Richard Prum, a professor at Yale
University, were unreturned."
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