Manes, Trains And Antlers Explained: How Showy Male Traits Evolved
Friday, August 22, 2008 - 00:28
in Biology & Nature
For Charles Darwin, the problem of the peacock's tail, in light of his theory of natural selection, was vexing in the extreme. A team of Wisconsin scientists has turned from the question of why such male traits exist to precisely how they evolved. They have worked out the molecular details of how a simple genetic switch controls decorative traits in male fruit flies and how that switch evolved.
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