Release from ecological constraint erases sex difference in social ornamentation

RT @mostly_waxbills: Part 11 (maybe one too many): Ok, if you like controversy, for a shameless argument of parallelism with human behaviou…

RT @mostly_waxbills: Part 6: The second hypothesis was answered "yes", albeit initially only with correlational data: colder nights were as…

RT @mostly_waxbills: Part 5: The first hypothesis was answered "no": males do not appear more aggressive or dominant than females, differen…

Part 11 (maybe one too many): Ok, if you like controversy, for a shameless argument of parallelism with human behaviour and women's standing in society, please see last 2 paragraphs in https://t.co/L6gIAT98tM .

Part 6: The second hypothesis was answered "yes", albeit initially only with correlational data: colder nights were associated with decreases in female, but not male, bill colour saturation. https://t.co/L6gIASQZfE

Part 5: The first hypothesis was answered "no": males do not appear more aggressive or dominant than females, differences in aggressiveness are not related to bill redness, and housing in same- or mixed-sex groups does not change bill colour. https://t.co/

@StoatlyL @CCriadoPerez @SexMattersOrg Please do not use this work to discuss gender issues, since we did not look at among-individual differences in the same sex. Other work on this species actually showed that some typical sex differences can easily disa

Not all sex differences are genetically fixed say @MQBiology researchers: "Female ornamentation may be more adversely affected by ecology because of their life history that requires balancing investment in ornamentation with maintaining reproductive condit

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