Publications by authors named "Domenic P Roberto"
Despite its bad reputation, gossip plays an important role in communicating and policing the social norms, morals, and values of a community. People are likely to be particularly attuned to gossip that helps solve recurrent adaptive challenges. Among women, sexual assault is a pervasive threat to reproductive choice that exacts serious costs on women's reproductive fitness.
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- Pheromone communication plays a key role in how insect parasites like wing lice (Columbicola columbae) interact with hosts and each other, offering potential strategies for controlling their populations.
- Wing lice, which infest birds such as Rock Doves (Columba livia), form aggregations on flight feathers and use pheromones to navigate towards conspecific groups.
- Research indicates that wing lice produce an aggregation pheromone specifically on flight feathers, and there may be different pheromones for males and females, prompting further investigation into their chemical identity and function.
The circumvention of female reproductive choice via rape is a costly and evolutionarily persistent threat to women's reproductive fitness. This is argued to have generated selection pressure for a precautionary threat management system for rape avoidance among women. Such a system would regulate women's fear of rape as a functional emotional response to inputs providing information about the current risk and reproductive cost of rape.
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