Darwin’s seminal theory of evolution by means of natural selection, first published 157 years ago, has been in constant refinement ever since. The production and maintenance of extravagant ornaments is widely suggested to evolve by conspecific preference providing information on individual intrinsic quality in sexual contexts or on individual social quality in non-reproductive contexts. The king penguin is a monomorphic bird species and an outstanding model to study ornament evolution. My results show that those ornaments are partly condition-dependent, and reliable traits that may be used to assess the quality of a potential sexual partner, implying that their evolution and maintenance is partly determined by sexual selection. On the other...
Extravagant male ornaments expressed during reproduction are almost invariably assumed to be sexuall...
Sexual selection is widely accepted as an explanation for the evolution of ornamental traits in anim...
In some species in one sex, generally males, ornaments evolve to attract females and/or sexually sel...
Darwin’s seminal theory of evolution by means of natural selection, first published 157 years ago, h...
Darwin devised sexual selection theory in order to explain the evolution and maintenance ...
Si la sélection sexuelle proposée par Darwin fournit un cadre théorique satisfaisant pour expliquer ...
The term sexual selection was introduced by Darwin to describe selection resulting from reproductive...
Ornaments used in courtship often vary wildly among species, reflecting the evolutionary interplay b...
Acknowledgments We thank Emilie Lefol for her help in the field, and two anonymous reviewers for the...
Ornaments used in courtship often vary wildly among species, reflecting the evolutionary interplay b...
Since the dawn of abstract thinking, humans have wondered about the seemingly unnecessary elaborate ...
We investigated whether delayed plumage maturation occurred in king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicu...
Classical sexual selection theory provides a well-supported conceptual framework for understanding t...
The evolution of elaborate male ornaments via sexual selection is well-understood while the selectiv...
SummaryDarwin's theory of evolution by natural selection provided an immediately convincing explanat...
Extravagant male ornaments expressed during reproduction are almost invariably assumed to be sexuall...
Sexual selection is widely accepted as an explanation for the evolution of ornamental traits in anim...
In some species in one sex, generally males, ornaments evolve to attract females and/or sexually sel...
Darwin’s seminal theory of evolution by means of natural selection, first published 157 years ago, h...
Darwin devised sexual selection theory in order to explain the evolution and maintenance ...
Si la sélection sexuelle proposée par Darwin fournit un cadre théorique satisfaisant pour expliquer ...
The term sexual selection was introduced by Darwin to describe selection resulting from reproductive...
Ornaments used in courtship often vary wildly among species, reflecting the evolutionary interplay b...
Acknowledgments We thank Emilie Lefol for her help in the field, and two anonymous reviewers for the...
Ornaments used in courtship often vary wildly among species, reflecting the evolutionary interplay b...
Since the dawn of abstract thinking, humans have wondered about the seemingly unnecessary elaborate ...
We investigated whether delayed plumage maturation occurred in king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicu...
Classical sexual selection theory provides a well-supported conceptual framework for understanding t...
The evolution of elaborate male ornaments via sexual selection is well-understood while the selectiv...
SummaryDarwin's theory of evolution by natural selection provided an immediately convincing explanat...
Extravagant male ornaments expressed during reproduction are almost invariably assumed to be sexuall...
Sexual selection is widely accepted as an explanation for the evolution of ornamental traits in anim...
In some species in one sex, generally males, ornaments evolve to attract females and/or sexually sel...