The sight of the peacock's tail makes me sick: The early arguments on sexual selection

Journal of Biosciences

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 11-18

  Hiraiwa Hasegawa, Mariko ^a  

^a SENSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

History of evolutionary theory; Natural selection; Origin of races; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

BIRD; COMPETITION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHILOSOPHY; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THEORY;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 0034095359     PISSN: 02505991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02985176     Document Type: Review

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