Cognition and evolution: learning and the evolution of sex traits.

Curr Biol

Harvard Medical School, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, McLean Hospital, NB-G21, Belmont, Massachusetts 02478, USA.

Published: June 2006

The evolution of gender characteristics is an outcome of mate choice, which has been assumed to be genetically mediated. Recent research suggests that learning also has a role to play as an agent of sexual selection.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2006.05.011DOI Listing

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