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Not every partnership is about sex

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageMany animals form life-long partnerships, but they're not always about sex.Brett Sayer/Flickr, CC BY-NC

Many species form long-term partnerships in life. When we see such pair bonds, our first assumption tends to be that the two individuals are a male and female, and the partnership is based on mating.

And for the most part this is indeed the case....

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Undying: the life and death of an indigo cloth

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageNantong China indigo-dyed cloth shoes and calico clothElizabeth Tunstall, CC BY-NC

The Nantongese Granny was angry. She believed her grandson was bringing a potential bride, not a group of researchers, to see her collection of indigo-dyed fabrics. Her sons and daughters laid out her bolts of 100 years-old handloom-woven calico fabric, two special...

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