Biologists' Mother's Day Song

Clearly we need more research on milk because this dude almost exclusively talks about the placenta. But its still amazing anyway. Enjoy!

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This week I discovered that back to back conferences have a multiplicative effect on my excitement about what I study. Recently the annual American Society of Primatologists meeting in Austin and the International Whey Conference in Chicago inspired the creation of this blog to showcase the many, many, MANY awesome advances in milk research with implications for nutrition, medicine, psychology, and evolutionary biology. Milk research from the molecule to the organism to the population to the taxon is not only darn cool, but is also making its way into popular science   and mainstream media . So stay tuned as this site gains some actual content in the coming weeks! Also the title of this blog is slightly misleading because technically monotremes lick.
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