'Flaunting It' - Sexual Selection and the Art of Courtship

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Uploaded by on Sep 29, 2009

What evolutionary purpose does beauty serve? And why does the idea of 'female mate choice' not hold true when it comes to primates and humans? From peacocks' tails to the kinds of sexual signals we can't even see, evolutionary biologist Professor Tim Clutton-Brock explores Darwin's theory of sexual selection.

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  • @OrthodoxDarwinist You sound very trollish.

  • This is all well and good, but I say we must start to worship Darwin on a spiritual level, and make him the conquering Christ and Lucifer rolled into one.

    There should be worldwide "churches" dedicated to Darwin in the form of massive research centres devoted to ecology and maintaining species diversity.

    Darwinism is not just a scientific model, it is a way of BEING.

  • This is interesting, but there is no explanation offered for how attraction to reproductively irrelevant secondary sexual characteristics could ever come to be, let alone increase over evolutionary time. It seems Darwin may have hit on a real mechanism, but completely failed to explain the genesis of this mechanism. Peace, DP

  • fascinating little lecture.

  • This was great! Thanks a lot.

  • This helped me out so much! This is great.

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