Subject: [Tweeters] Pretty Boys Have All the Chicks (link)
Date: Aug 31 12:42:32 2007
From: Devorah Bennu - birdologist at yahoo.com


Hello Tweeties,

I wrote a story of a paper that you might enjoy
reading. Basically, this paper asked the question,
"how can a monogamous population of birds evolve
strong sexual dichromatism?" Since sexual dichromatism
is dependent upon differential reproductive success
(but, hey, isn't everything?), the authors test
several hypotheses for how this comes about in a
population of splendid fairy-wrens, and thereby drives
the evolution of sexual dichromatism;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2007/08/pretty_boys_have_all_the_chick.php

Devorah
Central Park




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