{"id":28497,"date":"2012-07-10T00:37:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T06:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/10\/its-not-all-about-sexy-sexy-males-in-the-animal-kingdom.html"},"modified":"2012-07-10T00:37:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T06:37:58","slug":"its-not-all-about-sexy-sexy-males-in-the-animal-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/10\/its-not-all-about-sexy-sexy-males-in-the-animal-kingdom.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#39;s not all about sexy-sexy males in the animal kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea that, in most species (though, oddly, not with contemporary humans), sexual selection is based on gaudy, sexy males mating with as many females as possible &#8230; may not be actually supported by the original theories that put the idea forward.<\/p>\n<p>(And, regardless, doesn&#39;t explain the human paradigm of sexy-sexy females being the visible focus of <i>Homo sapiens<\/i> sexual display.)<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fimages_blogs%2Fwiredscience%2F2012%2F07%2Fpeacock.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2012\/07\/sexual-selection-challenge\/'>Traditional Sexual Values Challenged in Classic Animal Study | Wired Science | Wired.com<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFrom peacock tails to stag antlers, the idea that animal evolution is shaped by males boasting and fighting to win female favor is a central biological dogma. Under closer scrutiny, however, the dogma&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/MhVFP3uh7TY' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea that, in most species (though, oddly, not with contemporary humans), sexual selection is based on gaudy, sexy males mating with as many females as possible &#8230; may not be actually supported by the original theories that put the idea forward. (And, regardless, doesn&#39;t explain the human paradigm of sexy-sexy females being the visible &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/10\/its-not-all-about-sexy-sexy-males-in-the-animal-kingdom.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#39;s not all about sexy-sexy males in the animal kingdom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132645,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/the-apparent-myth-of-promiscuous-males-and-virtuous-females.html","url_meta":{"origin":28497,"position":0},"title":"The apparent myth of Promiscuous Males and Virtuous Females","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 25-Jan-17 4:06pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A fascinating look at some of the modern theories, experiments, and observations breaking the biological and \"evolutionary psychology\" myths that males mate freely and females don't -- or, as the anonymous[1] doggerel has it:Hogamous, Higamous,Man is polygamous,Higamous, Hogamous,Woman is monogamous.Turns out that when you go back and look at the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27368,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/12\/fear-love-sex-and-teen-boys.html","url_meta":{"origin":28497,"position":1},"title":"Fear, Love, Sex, and Teen Boys","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Apr-12 8:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Teen males 15-19 are as likely to be virgins as teen females the same age, which is a huge change over the last two decades. 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