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This project explores the evolution of song in songbirds, focusing on the loss of song in females. By analyzing song structure and its ecological correlates, the research aims to understand the dynamics of sexual dimorphism and the factors influencing trait loss in female songbirds.
Males and females often differ dramatically in phenotype, with one sex exhibiting elaborate ornaments absent in the other.
Darwin suggested such dimorphism evolves through sexual selection on males to attract females and repel rival males.
Ever since, this framework served to explain why males are showy and females drab.
Song in songbirds was a classic example (males sing and females are silent) until our recent research showed that female song is phylogenetically widespread and probably ancestr…
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