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    1. Steve Stewart-Williams‏ @SteveStuWill 17 Apr 2020

      This bizarre-looking creature is a long-wattled umbrellabird. The wattle hanging from its chest is a sexual ornament: the umbrellabird equivalent of the peacock's tail. Males display it to attract females. Ditto the Elvis quiff. Sexual selection really went to town on birds.pic.twitter.com/322Z1zcpzx

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 25 Apr 2020
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      What is it about birds that makes sexual selection so important? That females have a lot of options because they can fly?

      5:23 AM - 25 Apr 2020
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        1. Tinkered Thinking‏ @TinkeredThinker 25 Apr 2020
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          Mobility makes love more than just a proximity infatuation.

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        1. Andy D Lee‏ @andy_d_lee 25 Apr 2020
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          Long term pair bonding makes it a bigger investment.

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        2. Kalyan Varma‏Verified account @KalyanVarma 25 Apr 2020

          there are about 10x more bird species than mammals. Many are in isolated islands and with no shortage of food, they have evolved for this

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        2. Will Bunker‏ @wbunker 25 Apr 2020
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          Once the female in any species has a choice evolution becomes influenced by “beauty”. There is a great book about this:https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Beauty-Darwins-Forgotten-Theory/dp/0385537212 …

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        3. Kris Herring‏ @HerringKris 25 Apr 2020
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          Would this indicate women have only relatively recently had a choice? Or has the growth of “beauty” in men been within non physical traits such as intelligence, wit, compassion, music, so on? This could explain why we say things like beautiful mind, beautiful on the inside, ...

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        1. Douglas Bates‏ @dbatesmd 25 Apr 2020
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          Was going to link to Prum’s book as well. Fascinating, overlooked part of evolution, also by Darwin.

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        1. Douglas Bates‏ @dbatesmd 25 Apr 2020
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          This will get you started:https://after-on.com/episodes-31-60/033 …

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        1. Alex Emery‏ @AlxEmry 25 Apr 2020
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          They catch flights not feelings 😤💯

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        1. NiM∆  🤔 🤖 ⛓️‏ @insideNiMA 25 Apr 2020
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          Aka Tinder Passport?

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