Showy males burn out early, research finds

Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - 14:00 in Biology & Nature

Throughout the animal kingdom, males vie for female attention with showy traits. New research suggests the extremes to which these displays of manhood reach are tempered by the brainpower of the females themselves, as these modifications reach the point where the females can no longer tell them apart.

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