UCSB scientists show that female fruit flies can be 'too attractive' to males
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 06:07
in Biology & Nature
Females can be too attractive to the opposite sex - too attractive for their own good - say biologists at UC Santa Barbara. They found that, among fruit flies, too much male attention directed toward attractive females leads to smaller families and, ultimately, to a reduced rate of population-wide adaptive evolution...