Alternatively, it could also be that asynchronous evolution of male and female ornamentation reflects selection on female traits (e.g., aggressiveness) that are developmentally linked to ornaments, rather than selection of female ornaments per se [ 24].
I decided to test their moxie by ordering a selection of four ornaments on the Internet.
In both places, after all, can be found hyper-embellished picture frames, candleholders and a wide selection of Christmas ornaments.
The Neoclassical style, based on straight lines and rectilinear forms and using a selection of Classical ornaments, was first applied to French furniture during the 1760s.
Greta Tillinger Dear Diary: While shopping in the West Village one recent Sunday I stopped to look at a selection of Christmas ornaments and came upon a woman having a very difficult time choosing between two magnificent tree-toppers.
The show opens on Friday, and overlaps the Antique Garden Furniture Show, which takes place next weekend and features a selection of antique garden ornaments and accessories from 24 dealers around the nation.
We also measured the indirect responses to selection of the male ornaments on which females are thought to base their choice, and of life-history traits that may be genetically correlated with attractiveness and thus provide indirect benefits.
Its selection includes a number of ornaments by Christopher Radko, whose designs have graced trees at the White House and at Gracie Mansion.
They contain page after page of laborious yet exquisite samples of 142 alphabets in different weights and various "exotic" languages — Coptic, Phoenician, Tibetan — as well as a selection of printing glyphs and ornaments.
Going beyond the study of ornament allometries, there have been few studies that have examined the potential trade-off between sexual selection and predation in the expression of ornaments and other sexual signals more generally.
If the males in a population are endowed with an ornament that does not match the modal preference in the female population (Fig. 3a), there will be directional selection on the ornament, shifting the ornament toward the peak of the female preference distribution.
