Friday 6 March 2015

Sexual Dimorphism in the animal kingdom

Sexual dimorphism is a phenotypic difference between males and females of the same species. The prototypical example is for differences in characteristics of reproductive organs. Other possible examples are for secondary sex characteristics, body size, physical strength and morphology, ornamentationbehaviour and other bodily traits. Traits such as ornamentation and breeding behaviour found in one sex only imply sexual selection.



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