Students initially expected the confederate to display traits similar to those of a typical former mental patient.
But, if she is fertilized by force, then her offspring will inherit either random display traits or traits that she has specifically rejected as less attractive.
Really, neither liberals nor conservatives are particularly likely to display traits of psychoticism, and, to the extent that liberals are, it's no more related to their politics than to their shirt size.
Deciphering the function of multiple display traits in this system in the same spirit as work on spiders6,7,8,9, frogs42,43, and warblers44 is a tantalizing (if challenging) next step.
Females laying eggs for external fertilization have no control over the quality of the offspring, and must rely on proxies of male quality such as courtship and display traits.
We show that post-zygotic maternal provisioning by means of a placenta is associated with the absence of bright coloration, courtship behaviour and exaggerated ornamental display traits in males.
According to my therapist, the dance between people who display traits of love addicts (people who were abandoned in childhood) and love avoidants (those who go into a relationship intensely, but back away) is one of the most common relationship patterns in modern life.
But while they may not lead perfect lives, several of the 73 women on this year's Forbes list of the World's Billionaires display traits worthy of our admiration.
Mutations occur that result in a display trait which exploits the pre-existing sensory bias.
In this study, we examined the relationship between escape response swimming performance and an elongated male display trait in the green swordtail, Xiphophorus helleri.
Preference functions are measures of the male ornamental and display trait values that females favour [ 1- 5].
