Sentences with phrase «exaggerated peacock tail»
With jagged edges and a diagonal thrust, the work calls to mind an oversize, technicolor leaf, or maybe some exaggerated peacock tail.
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For one thing, sexual selection only explains why secondary sexual characteristics in males (the peacock's tail, the rooster's wattle, the unwieldy antlers of the Irish elk) become exaggerated.
«Darwin's female - choice theory has become the foundation for explaining the presence of exaggerated secondary sexual traits in many males, such as the peacock's tail feathers,» says evolutionary biologist Rama Singh, an author of a paper in the journal PLOS ONE that explains the findings.