Social and environmental selection on female ornaments and armaments

社会和环境对女性饰品和武器的选择

• 批准号: DP150101652
• 负责人: Prof Raoul Mulder
• 金额: $ 27.03万
• 依托单位: The University of Melbourne
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-06-30 至 2018-02-01
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP150101652
• 关键词: Social; environmental; selection; female; ornaments

Darwin's theory of sexual selection is remarkably successful in explaining how elaborate signals evolved in male animals, but it is unclear whether similar processes drive the evolution of female signals. This project aims to conduct empirical and comparative tests of hypotheses for female trait elaboration, capitalising on inter- and intra-specific variation in female signal form, social organisation and signalling environments. The project could generate new insight into the processes that promote and constrain phenotypic diversity in nature.

达尔文的性选择理论非常成功地解释了雄性动物是如何进化出复杂的信号的，但目前还不清楚是否有类似的过程推动了雌性动物信号的进化。该项目旨在对女性特质阐述的假设进行实证和比较测试，利用女性信号形式，社会组织和信号环境中的种间和种内变化。该项目可以对促进和限制自然界表型多样性的过程产生新的见解。