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1-18-2009 9:32 PM
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Silkweaver says:
It shows that extended courtship can take place, with a good male being willing to court for longer than a bad male and the female delaying mating. In this way the duration of a male’s courtship effort carries information about his type. By delaying mating, the female is able to make some use of this information to achieve a degree of screening. Because bad males have a greater tendency to quit the courtship game early, as time goes on and the male has not quit it becomes increasingly probable that he is a “good” male.
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1-18-2009 9:35 PM
Silkweaver
This is why certain people hate science!
1-19-2009 7:06 AM
AiNeko III
well, there's good news in this too, maybe we can't hurry love, but now we can certainly count it
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