Why does the peacock have such an elaborate tail? This cumbersome trait significantly decreases the male's chances of survival. It only exists because it confers an advantage to its bearer in the form ...
Explore sexual selection theory: how mate choice dynamics influence evolution and the role of Fisherian runaway and the Handicap Principle. But this bump in recognition for sexual selection seems to ...
Sexual selection in beetles leads to more rapid evolution of new species, long-term experiments show
When males are forced to compete for females, new species form more rapidly. This has been shown in a new study where the researchers compared beetles allowed to mate freely with groups of the same ...
Natural selection can reverse evolution that occurs through sexual selection and this can lead to better females, new research shows. Natural selection can reverse evolution that occurs through sexual ...
Tamas Szekely receives funding from The Royal Society and theELVONAL programme of Hungarian Research Foundation (NKFIH). Charles Darwin was a careful scientist. In the middle of the 19th century, ...
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