Biology: Concepts and Investigations
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Author: Mariëlle Hoefnagels Dr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 35.7, Problem 1MC
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Why sexual cannibalism represents an evolutionary paradox.
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A cannibal is the organism that feeds other members of the same species. Sexual cannibalism is the situation when a female of a species eats the males during, before or after copulation. Sexual cannibalism is mostly occurs in arthropods such as scorpion, spider and mantises.
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Biology: Concepts and Investigations
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