TW Goodwin - The Biochemistry of Carotenoids. Vol. II: Animal 被引量: 1220发表: 1984年 Carotenoid Modulation of Immune Function and Sexual Attractiveness in Zebra Finches. One hypothesis for why females in many animal species frequently prefer to mate with the most elaborately ornamented males pred...
under the heading of insight is fundamentally different from that studied in comparative cognition. In light of this impasse, I argue that the reinterpretation of the extant research on animal insight in terms of other high-level cognitive capacities (means-end reasoning in particular) can improve ...
“Scientific” materialism simply cannot be tested in a laboratory, let alone proven by the pseudoscientific fairytales that dominate scientific discussions now and are based on fossil record speculation, the epigenetic micro-evolution of finches, the nearly human genome and physical appearance of Chimpa...
The field of landscape camping and bird diversity research has steadily developed over the last two decades. Figure 1 shows that from 2002 to 2022 the number of studies in the subject area of the scientific network database increased year by year, and the research history can be divided into...
Interested in how the government spends your taxes? Well in the case of the US, I’m flattered to say the federal government has been spending it on me. But it does it in two very different ways. First, it pays for my scientific research. This is done through grants from the competiti...
Different song nuclei are responsible for each aspect of hierarchically organized song structures. Specifically, a lower-order song nucleus (RA) codes note type, while higher-order song nuclei (HVC and Nif) program transition patterns. Considering that female Bengalese Finches prefer syntactically ...
That is, we calculated two different scores of male apparent inconsistency, one score for each of the two females that saw the male. Each score was based on the very behaviour the female could observe (a female could only observe one male during the first test period and the other one ...
Many instances of adaptive radiations, such as Darwin’s finches on the Galápagos Islands, the African Rift Lake cichlids, and the Hawaiian silverswords4,7 had a profound influence in shaping current evolutionary theory5. The main driver of adaptive radiation is thought to be ecological ...
Darwin's finches are a model system for studying adaptive diversification. However, despite the large body of work devoted to this system, rather little is known about the functional consequences of variation in the size and shape of bills. We test, using two methods, if natural or sexual ...
we’ve returning to our community-supported agriculture roots after a two-year sabbatical. Trying something new this year, we’ll be offering a series of short, six-week CSA options to encourage new folks to join us and find out what we’re all about. (Of course we’ll happily welcome ...