Life history and disease in Tasmanian devils (1)
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The keywords to the article include, "carnivorous marsupial" and "precocious breeding." What better teaser could you possibly hope for? Tasmanian devils are dying because of a transmissible cell line infection, or "cancer," decimating their population. In fact, in some places it's killing 9 out of 10, which is way beyond decimation. The new paper by Menna Jones and colleagues claims that the population is evolving toward a radical life history solution to the problem: Tasmanian ...