{"id":740244,"date":"2022-11-09T10:37:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T14:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=740244"},"modified":"2022-11-09T10:37:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T14:37:40","slug":"sex-role-flexibility-is-key-to-evolution-of-homosexual-partnerships-in-termites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=740244","title":{"rendered":"Sex role flexibility is key to evolution of homosexual partnerships in termites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you happen to see termites engaging in courtship rituals, you&#8217;d be hard-pressed to spot the difference between opposite-sex and same-sex couples. That&#8217;s because one of the termites in a same-sex couple changes its behavior to act like the opposite sex. This &#8220;sex role flexibility&#8221; is crucial for the evolution and maintenance of same-sex pairs, reports a new study published in PNAS on November 8, 2022.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-11-sex-role-flexibility-key-evolution.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sex role flexibility is key to evolution of homosexual partnerships in termites<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you happen to see termites engaging in courtship rituals, you&#8217;d be hard-pressed to spot the difference between opposite-sex and same-sex couples. That&#8217;s because one of the termites in a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=740244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=740244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}