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“Peacocks and Picathartes: Reflections on Africa’s Birdlife”

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And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. Not only that, but she stayed there long enough for the three to return to camp, collect up the rest of the incredulous group, and bring them all back to enjoy the sighting for themselves.”

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A Strategic Arms Race Among Birds

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This was the idea originally proposed to explain unbelievably huge sexual swellings in primates, to let males know who the females are. Science (New York, N.Y.), Birds (or other animals) need to be whacked on the head with some over the top obvious signal of something important or they won’t notice it. Somveille, M., Mulder, R.

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The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us: A Book Review

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Prum, or at the very least heard about it The book was published last spring (the paperback version is due out in spring 2018), and articles based on book chapters were been published in The New York Times , National Geographic, and Natural History.

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