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This bizarre-looking creature is a long-wattled umbrellabird. The wattle hanging from its chest is a sexual ornament: the umbrellabird equivalent of the peacock's tail. Males display it to attract females. Ditto the Elvis quiff. Sexual selection really went to town on birds.

From my "12 Things Everyone Should Know About Birds" stevestewartwilliams.com/p/12-things-ev…

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The Gender Attractiveness Gap, Car Seats as Contraception, and How Marx Will Make You Poorer My latest post on S*bstack! [Link below.]

Link: The Gender Attractiveness Gap, Car Seats as Contraception, and How Marx Will Make You Poorer stevestewartwilliams.com/p/the-gender-a…

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"Psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams (Steve Stewart-Williams )puts it like this: male secondary sex characteristics are more like a deer’s antlers than a peacock’s tail. Peacock tails evolved to attract mates. Antlers evolved to fight rivals or intimidate them."

Car Seats as Contraception open.substack.com/pub/stevestewa… via Steve Stewart-Williams