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Testing a Mates Brain: Courtship signals may reveal signaler decision-making capacity

2026-08-24

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IIt has been suggested that courtship signals reflect a potential mate's learning ability or nervous system competence. However, there is no rigorous theory that explains how features of sexual signals represent a nervous system's "quality". Such a theory may provide a mechanism for mate assessment via sexual signals and offer an explanation for why courtship signals are rhythmic and stereotypic. In our paper, fir...

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Literature Corpus work: a6938900-7382-522f-864a-4b4415229cb1
DOI: 10.64898/2026.08.19.745821

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