Cognition and evolution: learning and the evolution of sex traits.
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.
Lynn
Spencer K
SK
Harvard Medical School, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, McLean Hospital, NB-G21, Belmont, Massachusetts 02478, USA. slynn@mclean.harvard.edu
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D046369:Finches / Q000502:physiology*; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal