Studies of Female Platyfish, Whose Male Counterparts Have a Variety

question 71

Multiple Choice

Studies of female platyfish, whose male counterparts have a variety of tail shapes, show that the females have a preference for male fish with artificial swordlike structures attached to their tails.This observation is most consistent with the

• A) notion of a molecular clock.
• B) maximum likelihood principle.
• C) sensory exploitation hypothesis.
• D) principle of homoplasy.
• E) parsimony principle.

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