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Wasps parasitize an incredibly diverse range of species, including plants and animals. Did this tendency to parasitize come from a common ancestor which shifted hosts, or is there just something about wasps which makes them tend to evolve parasitic relationships?

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How in the heck do human beings end up eating all the nutrients they need to stay alive, without using complex charts and careful diets?

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How big would a structure have to be to be visible from the moon?

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A question about the gravity of Jupiter and other gas giants... could the gravity get higher as you go deeper?

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I assume the common ancestor of birds and man must have been sexual, yet we encode sex genetically in entirely different ways. How is this possible?

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How do scientists launch one photon at a time--and how do they know it's one photon?

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What are the characteristics that allowed multicellularity to evolve on earth?

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Are most penises in the animal kingdom related, or did many of them evolve independently?

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Is harvesting solar energy from space (by moving much closer to the sun) just a stupid idea?

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Can the mind be restarted? Can all electrical activity in the brain cease, and then restart, and not cause psychological changes?

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Wasps parasitize an incredibly diverse range of species, including plants and animals. Did this tendency to parasitize come from a common ancestor which shifted hosts, or is there just something about wasps which makes them tend to evolve parasitic relationships?	38
How in the heck do human beings end up eating all the nutrients they need to stay alive, without using complex charts and careful diets?	23
How big would a structure have to be to be visible from the moon?	21
A question about the gravity of Jupiter and other gas giants... could the gravity get higher as you go deeper?	20
I assume the common ancestor of birds and man must have been sexual, yet we encode sex genetically in entirely different ways. How is this possible?	19
How do scientists launch one photon at a time--and how do they know it's one photon?	18
What are the characteristics that allowed multicellularity to evolve on earth?	18
Are most penises in the animal kingdom related, or did many of them evolve independently?	17
Is harvesting solar energy from space (by moving much closer to the sun) just a stupid idea?	17
Can the mind be restarted? Can all electrical activity in the brain cease, and then restart, and not cause psychological changes?	16