Study: Sex Ornaments Grow Out of Proportion

Now, in the largest survey to date, James Brown at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, US, and his colleagues have examined the proportions of 284 ornament-bearing species to see whether the tendency was truly universal. They found that in virtually every case, ornament size grew by roughly the square of the overall growth rate.

So the scientist's name is James Brown, eh? Like a sex machine.



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