Michael J. Ryan is the Clark Hubbs Regents Professor in Zoology at the University of Texas and a senior research associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. He is a leading researcher in the fields of sexual selection, mate choice, and animal communication. He lives in Austin, Texas.
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Darwin developed the theory of sexual selection to explain why the animal world abounds in stunning beauty, from the brilliant colors of butterflies and fishes to the songs of birds and frogs. He argued that animals have 'a taste for the beautiful' that d... SEE MORE