Does being beautiful mean dying sooner? In nature, it can.

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  • 6 years ago
The courtship rituals of the Club-winged Manakin leave both the male and the female worse off physically, says evolutionary ornithologist Richard O. Prum. And yet, it's one of the most beautiful mating habits around. Sometimes, evolution by mate choice can work in an opposing direction to natural selection, guided more by beauty than what is practical.

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