A waltz over evolutionary timescales: why it’s so exhausting for animals to invent a brand new mating dance
“Love makes fools of all of us,” wrote Nineteenth-century novelist William Makepeace Thackeray. A second spent staring at the pigeons at your native park suggests he was once proper: men with puffed-up, shimmering necks hop, pirouette, coo, and bow to seize the eye of unimpressed women folk. However why do male pigeons categorical themselves in […]




