{"id":2456,"date":"2009-12-09T05:21:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T10:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2009-12-09T05:21:32","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T10:21:32","slug":"rotdthe-downside-of-beauty-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/09\/rotdthe-downside-of-beauty-gene-expression\/","title":{"rendered":"ROTD::The downside of beauty : Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>And yet as you can see above, strong male preference for these fecund females reduces their fitness. <strong>Male persistence from what I can tell might be colloquially termed &#8220;harassment.&#8221; The energetic surfeit which larger females might allocate to their own reproductive output for provisioning has to be expended upon fending off males.<\/strong> In a context where males strongly prefer large females their fitness advantage is actually mitigated! This is a really weird outcome of sexual preferences.<br \/>\n&#8230;.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m left a little confused by this sort of paper. <strong>Evolution is in its ultimate basis is a matter of logic, but when it comes to the byzantine dance between sexual, environmental and social selection, the balance between physiological and reproductive fitness, one can be left like a dog chasing one&#8217;s own tail logic takes nature by its horns and drives to inevitable conclusions.<\/strong> I assume that&#8217;s why experiments and field research are a necessary complement to analysis from first priniciples. The authors are cautious about their results:<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gnxp\/2009\/12\/the_downside_of_beauty.php\">The downside of beauty : Gene Expression<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And yet as you can see above, strong male preference for these fecund females reduces their fitness. Male persistence from what I can tell might be colloquially termed &#8220;harassment.&#8221; The energetic surfeit which larger females might allocate to their own reproductive output for provisioning has to be expended upon fending off males. In a context &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/09\/rotdthe-downside-of-beauty-gene-expression\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ROTD::The downside of beauty : Gene Expression&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts","category-research","category-rotd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}