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- Title
Evolutionary biology (Communication arising): Significance of primate sexual swellings.
- Authors
Zinner, Dietmar; Alberts, Susan C.; Nunn, Charles L.; Altmann, Jeanne
- Abstract
Exaggerated sexual signals are likely to be shaped by sexual selection, but few studies have examined signal evolution in females. Domb and Pagel have presented support for the hypothesis that individual differences in exaggerated sexual swellings in female primates are reliable indicators of differences in female quality. However, our re-analysis of their data casts doubt on their conclusions.
- Subjects
BABOONS; SEXUAL selection
- Publication
Nature, 2002, Vol 420, Issue 6912, p142
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/420142a