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Why Guys Get Fancy

The diversity of private parts mystifies biologists

Female preferences may explain why male genitalia seem to evolve more rapidly than other body parts.

References:

Arnqvist, G. 1998. Comparative evidence for the evolution of genitalia by sexual selection. Nature 393(June 25):784.

Eberhard, W.G. 1996. Female Control: Sexual Selection by Cryptic Female Choice. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

______. 1985. Sexual Selection and Animal Genitalia. Cambridge, Mass., and London, England: Harvard University Press.

Gwynne, D.T. 1998. Genitally does it. Nature 393(June 25):734.

Further Readings:

Adler, T. 1995. Fishy sex. Science News 148(Oct. 21):266.

Shumaker, R., and J. Downhower. 1995. Do primates experience sperm competition? American Naturalist 146:302.

The Plum Brook Moth Survey is available at the Ohio State University's Web site at http://iris.biosci.ohio-state.edu/plumbrook/plumbrook.html.

The Sperm Competition Lab's Home page is available at http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/scl/.

Sources:

Göran Anqvist
University of Umeå
Department of Animal Ecology
S-901 87 Umeå
Sweden
Web site: http://130.239.15.209/gaq/GA.html.

William G. Eberhard
Universidad de Costa Rica
Ciudad Universitaria
Costa Rica

Patricia Adair Gowaty
University of Georgia
Institute of Ecology
Athens, GA 30602-2602
E-mail: gowaty@ecology.uga.edu

Darryl T. Gwynne
University of Toronto
Erindale Campus
Department of Biology
Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6
Canada

Mike Siva-Jothy
University of Sheffield
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences
Sheffield S10 2TN
United Kingdom

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