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Pregnancy: cooperative paradise or conflict-driven battle between mother and child?

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imageThere's a battle for resources going on in there.Christian Glatz, CC BY-NC-ND

Pregnancy sounds like the ultimate form of animal cooperation – mothers share their own bodies to grow and support their children’s prenatal development. But in reality, embryos use every trick in the book to take more than their fair share. Mothers, in turn,...

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