PhilGoetz comments on Why Real Men Wear Pink - Less Wrong

51 Post author: Yvain 06 August 2009 07:39AM

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Comment author: RobinHanson 07 August 2009 01:17:53AM 3 points [-]

Actually I read recently that they see no correlation between tail quality and sex success in Peacocks.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 07 August 2009 01:21:38AM *  1 point [-]

How do they know how female peacocks measure tail quality?

I suppose they mean, the tail properties relevant to the "peacock's-tail" theory of sexual selection.