Sexual Selection

Sciences & Technology

It’s not just antenna size, but scales that matter for lonely male moths

Male moth antennae act like sieves, separating female sex pheromones from environmental dust

Sciences & Technology

Genes don’t always dictate that ‘boys will be boys’

The evolutionary biology behind insect sex can tell us a lot about ourselves - but for both them and us, genes aren’t necessarily destiny

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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