Peacock

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. . . .Biologists still needed to explain why females should be endowed with such preferences. It isn’t sufficient simply to claim, as Darwin did, that members of the “fair sex” are naturally possessed of greater aesthetic perceptiveness. Enter the sexy son hypothesis, which says that the peahen was selected to prefer fancy-plumed peacocks because this would increase the chances of her male offspring would inherit a comparably impressive tail and would therefore be especially attractive to the next generation of peahens. Females who mate preferentially with sexy males would become the mothers of sexy sons, who would reward their mothers’ preferences by providing more grandchildren. ` Page 43 "HOMO MYSTERIOUS" ~ Author: David Barash