Could sexual selection be driven by the mistaken inferences of young females?

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2023-10-04

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Mendelson TC, Patricelli GL, Hebets EA (2023) Could sexual selection be driven by the mistaken inferences of young females? PLoS Biol 21(10): e3002321. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002321

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A new evolutionary model of mate choice copying, published in PLOS Biology, aims to reconcile mismatches between theory and data by proposing that juvenile females mistakenly imprint on male phenotypes that were not in fact preferred by the female they copied.