A discussion of “The Peacock’s Tale” in Richard Dawkins’ and Yan Wong’s book The Ancestor’s Tale. Minor mistake: the Penn and Szamado paper is from a few years ago, not last year. All pictures are from Google.
“Darwin, sexual selection, and the brain”: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073...
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us: https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Beau...
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature 2nd Edition: https://www.amazon.com/Red-Queen-Evol...
“Weight lifting and health status in the black wheatear”: https://academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
“Call duration as an indicator of genetic quality in male gray tree frogs”: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2895...
The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection: https://www.amazon.com/Genetical-Theo...
“Natural Selection on Color Patterns in Poecilia reticulata”: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2408...
“Sexual selection: the handicap principle does work – sometimes”: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3627...
“Ardi’s Tale”:    • Ardi's Tale  
“The Seal’s Tale”:    • The Seal's Tale  
“Human sexual selection”: https://beel.la.psu.edu/files/2022/05...
“The human operational sex ratio: Effects of marriage, concealed ovulation, and menopause on mate competition”: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
“Brief Communication: Hair Density and Body Mass in Mammals and the Evolution of Human Hairlessness”: https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstr...
“Thermoregulation and endurance running in extinct hominins: Wheeler’s models revisited”: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
“A naked ape would have fewer parasites”: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
“Apes, lice and prehistory”: https://jbiol.biomedcentral.com/artic...
“Runaway brain-culture coevolution as a reason for larger brains: Exploring the ‘cultural drive’ hypothesis by computer modeling”: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/p...
“The Handicap Principle: how an erroneous hypothesis became a scientific principle”
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...
“Copepod incompatibilities”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...
“The mitonuclear compatibility hypothesis of sexual selection”
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
“ The mitonuclear compatibility species concept”
https://academic.oup.com/auk/article/...