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Ornaments are equally informative in male and female birds. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2022 Female ornaments are often reduced, male-like traits. Although these were long perceived as non-functional, it is now broadly accepted that female ornaments can be adaptive.
Nolazco S +3 more
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Sexual selection on multiple female ornaments in dance flies [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018 Sex-specific ornaments typically occur in males, but they can also develop in females. While there are several models concerning the evolution of male-specific ornaments, it is not clear how, or under what circumstances, those models apply to female ...
R. L. Murray +3 more
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Handicap principle implies emergence of dimorphic mating displays [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283, 1970: November 30 2016, 2015 Species spanning the animal kingdom have evolved extravagant and costly ornaments to attract mating partners. Zahavi's handicap principle offers an elegant explanation for this: ornaments signal individual quality, and must be costly to ensure honest signalling, making mate selection more efficient.
Sara M. Clifton +2 more
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Genetic Architecture of Conspicuous Red Ornaments in Female Threespine Stickleback [PDF]
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2015 Explaining the presence of conspicuous female ornaments that take the form of male-typical traits has been a longstanding challenge in evolutionary biology. Such female ornaments have been proposed to evolve via both adaptive and nonadaptive evolutionary
Lengxob Yong, C. L. Peichel, J. Mckinnon
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Achromatic Markings as Male Quality Indicators in a Crepuscular Bird [PDF]
BiologySecondary sexual traits, such as specific body parts or colouration, play an important role in mating interactions. It has been proposed that they function as quality indicators driven by sexual selection.
Richard Schnürmacher +6 more
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Journal of Functional Programming, 2016 AbstractDependently typed programming advocates the use of various indexed versions of the same shape of data, but the formal relationship amongst these structurally similar datatypes usually needs to be established manually and tediously. Ornaments have been proposed as a formal mechanism to manage the relationships between such datatype variants.
Hsiang-Shang Ko, J. Gibbons
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Indian Journal of Tamil, 2020 Ornaments are worn in order to enhance the natural beauty. The ornaments worn by the people of the Sangam period were in harmony with their life-style.
M, Sindhu
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Ornaments of Flora and Fauna on Traditional Acehnese House [PDF]
Jurnal Natural, 2015 This study was aimed to explore ornaments on the Traditional Acehnese House (TAH) in Banda Aceh. Data were obtained by direct survey and interview methods to TAH and owners, carpenters, and community leaders. Secondary data were obtained from literatures,
Sofyan Sofyan
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The Ornaments of the Arma Veirana Early Mesolithic Infant Burial
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2022 Personal ornaments are widely viewed as indicators of social identity and personhood. Ornaments are ubiquitous from the Late Pleistocene to the Holocene, but they are most often found as isolated objects within archaeological assemblages without direct ...
C. Gravel-Miguel +16 more
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Journal of Medives: Journal of Mathematics Education IKIP Veteran Semarang, 2021 The mosque is the result of acculturation between Islamic culture and local culture. Many mosque ornaments use geometric motifs. This research is an ethnomathematics study that aims to explore the ethnomathematics aspects of mosque ornament, especially ...
T. Purniati +3 more
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