Evolutionary Biologists Often Start with an Observation About Some Characteristic

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Essay

Evolutionary biologists often start with an observation about some characteristic and then try to account for it in evolutionary terms. How might they explain the difference in the plumage of male peacocks when compared to the females?

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Definitions:

Participate

To take part or become involved in a particular activity, event, or situation.

Enuresis

Repeated urination in clothing or in bed.

Bladder

A hollow muscular organ that stores urine excreted by the kidneys before it is discharged from the body.

Bedwetting

Involuntary urination while asleep after the age when bladder control usually occurs, clinically known as nocturnal enuresis.