UCSB scientists show that female fruit flies can be 'too attractive' to males
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 09:49
in Biology & Nature
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- -- Females can be too attractive to the opposite sex ? -- too attractive for their own good ?? say biologists at UC Santa Barbara. They found that, among fruit flies, too much male attention directed toward attractive females leads to smaller families and, ultimately, to a reduced rate of population-wide adaptive evolution. Link: http://www.ucsb.edu
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