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Read “A Bridge between Animal Psychology and Sexual Selection: Possible Effects of Habituation and Neural Adaptation on Mate Choice Signals,” by William G. Eberhard, new from The Quarterly Review of Biology. ow.ly/cmao50QHTr9
February 28, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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William Eberhard: "The largest collection of detailed descriptions of male and female genital copulation behaviour ever assembled, suggests that rapid divergence in male genital morphology is driven by sexual selection to court females during copulation.":

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Genital behaviour in crane flies (Diptera: Tipuloidea): testing hypotheses for genital evolution
Abstract. The tendency for the genital morphology of animals to diverge more rapidly than other traits is one of the most pervasive evolutionary patterns i
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July 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM