Tuesday, 29 January 2008

females are fickle

What's the Rigoletto line?: "La donna e mobile..."
This is an interesting paper showing how female preferences change:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/319/5862/459.pdf

See also the write up on the Behavioral Ecology Blog:
http://blog.behavioralecology.net/

1 comment:

Sonja said...

thanks for the sexual selection paper! this inspires me to dig a few more, by my first Alma Mater -people (Finns are very into sexual selection and stuff) :). Let's see what Kokko, Merila, Ulri Candolin et al are up to nowadays! hip. Btw, looking forward to McNamara's talk --it promises to hin to to behavioural syndromes stuff too!