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The host cited Prum's book as a source for examples of extreme sexual selection such as the Argus pheasant.
Richard Prum has written about this in, in, his book, The Evolution of Beauty.
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The host cited Prum's book as a source for examples of extreme sexual selection such as the Argus pheasant.
Richard Prum has written about this in, in, his book, The Evolution of Beauty.
He has this theory ... that feathers were invented for display before they were ever used for flight and that we wouldn't have had flight if we hadn't had sexual display.