Ugly Betty forced to aim for Average Joe

Friday, August 27, 2010 - 05:42 in Biology & Nature

Less-pretty female house sparrows tend to lower their aim when selecting a mate. Addressing the lack of studies on condition-dependency of female mate choice, researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology found that female sparrows of a low quality prefer males of an equally low quality...

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