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4 results for "peacock"

N_1_13 Verified Secret Societies

N_1_13 — Yazidi Tradition: Peacock Angel and the Misunderstood Religion

The Yazidis (Êzîdî) are an ethno-religious community of approximately 700,000-1,000,000 people (estimates vary widely due to dispersal), primarily concentrated in the Nineveh Plains and Sinjar Mountains of northern Iraq,

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ZB_1_13 Verified Ecology & Biology

ZB_1_13 — Sexual Selection and Mate Choice

Sexual selection — first articulated by Darwin (1871) in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex — is the evolutionary process by which traits that increase mating success are favored, even when they decreas

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R_3_04 Verified Biology & Evolution

R_3_04 — Sexual Selection — Mate Choice and Evolutionary Aesthetics

Sexual selection, first articulated by Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871), explains traits that enhance mating success rather than survival — from the peacock's extravagant tail

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R_5_09 Verified Biology & Evolution

R_5_09 — Color in Nature: Structural Color, Pigmentation, and Signaling

Color in nature serves functions spanning camouflage, warning, mate attraction, thermoregulation, and protection from UV radiation — produced through two fundamentally different mechanisms: pigmentary color (selective ab

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