Significance of primate sexual swellings

Leah G. Domb () and Mark Pagel
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Leah G. Domb: Lawrenceville School
Mark Pagel: School of Animal and Microbial Sciences, University of Reading

Nature, 2002, vol. 420, issue 6912, 143-143

Abstract: Abstract Zinner et al. question our finding that the size of a female wild baboon's sexual swellings predicts her lifetime reproductive success, suggesting that we should have controlled for female height in our analyses of female fitness. But the issue is not whether a female's fitness is independent of her height, but whether males draw inferences about her fitness from her sexual swelling, and do so independently of her height. Our results indicate that they do1,2, supporting the hypothesis that sexual swellings advertise female reproductive value.

Date: 2002
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