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