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Interesting. I wonder how that's influenced by the fact birds have specific reproductive seasons and 90% of bird species only take a single mate per season. A
by causality0 5y ago
Interesting. I wonder how that's influenced by the fact birds have specific reproductive seasons and 90% of bird species only take a single mate per season. A male bird doesn't really have the possibility of being hundreds of times as reproductively successful as another male bird.
- SamReidHughes 5y agoWell, the evolutionary split on that difference is a long time ago, so the causality could only be in the opposite direction. It'd be pretty neat if there was a large relationship between sex chromosome size and species' mating patterns.