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- From: colby@bu-bio.bu.edu (Chris Colby)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Sexual Selection (was: microevolution (the rest))
- Message-ID: <102251@bu.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 01:35:39 GMT
- References: <101684@bu.edu> <101715@bu.edu> <1992Nov13.174536.9622@aurora.com>
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- In article <1992Nov13.174536.9622@aurora.com> isaak@aurora.com (Mark Isaak) writes:
- >In article <101715@bu.edu> colby@bu-bio.bu.edu (Chris Colby) writes:
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- >Does sexual selection always imply dimorphism?
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- It seems to be highly correlated with it. I would bet if you plotted
- male harem size (across as many "independent" taxa as possible) vs.
- some measure of sexual dimorphism, you'd see a nice relationship.
- (I would bet that this has been done, in fact. I'll do a half-assed
- search for a ref tomorrow and see if I find anything.)
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- >Are the diopsid's eye stalks really a result of sexual selection?
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- I don't know the system.
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- >Are there any other examples of sexual selection without sexual
- >dimorphism?
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- I don't know (but I'm not really knee deep in that sort of knowledge
- either).
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- >Mark Isaak "Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every
-
- Chris Colby --- email: colby@bu-bio.bu.edu ---
- "'My boy,' he said, 'you are descended from a long line of determined,
- resourceful, microscopic tadpoles--champions every one.'"
- --Kurt Vonnegut from "Galapagos"
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