Sexual Encounters of the Third Kind: Darwin's Beetles Still Producing Surprises
Friday, February 6, 2009 - 14:14
in Psychology & Sociology
(PhysOrg.com) -- On the eve of Charles Darwin`s 200th birthday, researchers at the University of New Mexico and University of Montana report a new twist in sexual selection theory - the realm of evolutionary science that Darwin founded alongside his more generally known theory of natural selection. This news, which appears in the February 6th issue of Science Magazine, is particularly propitious because the discovery was made during studies of some of the same species that Darwin used to develop his ideas.