Why does the peacock have such an elaborate tail? This cumbersome trait significantly decreases the male's chances of survival. It only exists because it confers an advantage to its bearer in the form ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Sexual selection refers to species' selection for traits that are attractive to the opposite sex. This special type of natural selection enhances opportunities to mate, the tail of ...

Natural selection can reverse evolution that occurs through sexual selection and this can lead to better females, new research shows. Natural selection can reverse evolution that occurs through sexual ...

Tamas Szekely receives funding from The Royal Society and theELVONAL programme of Hungarian Research Foundation (NKFIH). Charles Darwin was a careful scientist. In the middle of the 19th century, ...

Showy male competitions over mating privileges have grabbed scientists’ attention more often, but new work hints that sexual selection is also widespread among females. As the midday sun hangs over ...

Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, 3258 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843. progress in some areas of sexual selection research, we still have much to accomplish. One of the great strengths of ...

Most people understand how natural selection drives evolution. The variants within a species best adapted to their environment wind up winning the reproductive contest and their offspring inherit a ...