Tamara Johnson

PhD Candidate, School of BioSciences, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne

Sciences & Technology

Darwin was right: Females prefer sex with good listeners

Almost 150 years after Charles Darwin first proposed a little-known prediction from his theory of sexual selection, researchers have found that male moths with larger antennae are better at detecting female signals

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