Re: There's hope!

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• Subject: Re: [CHAT] There's hope!
• From: "Pam Evans" g*@gmail.com
• Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 05:32:54 -0500
• In-reply-to: 20060421050544.GF32417@mallorn.com
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LOL - give me substance over flash any day!!

On 4/21/06, Christopher P. Lindsey <lindsey@mallorn.com> wrote:
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> http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/420/2
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> First paragraph of the article:
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> Despair Not, Frumpy Guys
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> By Julie Rehmeyer
> ScienceNOW Daily News
> 20 April 2006
>
> Always going after the attractive guy can have its downsides. Female birds
> gravitate toward flashy fellows, for example, but if they always picked
> mates with the same showy traits, the population would eventually become
> inbred. A new study of wild finches suggests a solution to the puzzle:
> All the males with showy feathers get paired in the spring. In the summer,
> still-single females fly far from home, where they settle for males with
> more subdued plumage and thereby contribute to the genetic diversity of
> the population.
>
> Chris
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