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Lucy Cooke: Where Females Call the Shots

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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The Myth of Polyandras

In the 1980s, Patricia Goarty discovered that a clutch of eggs has several fathers. The discovery sparked what was called a polyandry revolution in zoology. In animals as diverse as lizards to lobsters to lions, females will mate with multiple males for a variety of reasons. And it's all literally, literally takes two to tango.

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