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SUBMITTER: Tazzyman SJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3920633 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 20130930 1
Why are there so few small secondary sexual characters? Theoretical models predict that sexual selection should lead to reduction as often as exaggeration, and yet we mainly associate secondary sexual ornaments with exaggerated features such as the peacock's tail. We review the literature on mate choice experiments for evidence of reduced sexual traits. This shows that reduced ornamentation is effectively impossible in certain types of ornamental traits (behavioral, pheromonal, or color-based tr ...[more]