No, the peacock's tail results from the mating choices made by peahens.

Put a ring through his nose! Your peacock makes sport with an ox.

Peacocks have evolved to have long, colorful feathers simply because peahens have evolved to find them attractive.

Darwin himself, by the way, had no doubts that the peacock's tail was beautiful in the eyes of the peahen.

How about Wednesday. That's pheasant.

Tomorrow at this time you'll be chasing peacocks across the lawn.

Maratus volans, is a species in the jumping spider family, belonging to the peacock spider genus.

Color without pigments this peacock is creating color with shape.

The peacock's magnificent tail is the most famous example of this.

That's one little peacock that won't give us any trouble.

like the peacock's tail, except that, unlike hair and feathers, the hand axes are consciously cleverly crafted.

So if you look at the peacock over here, the hen seems to be rather uninterested, and he's saying, Look at my tail.

According to evolutionary psychologists, such displays of blatant benevolence are the human equivalent of the male peacock s tail.

So I'm currently working on a book, which plays with both senses of the word, as I explore some of my own ideas and inquiries in a visual display of rather peacock like grandeur.

It is found in moist and dry deciduous forests, but can adapt to live in cultivated regions and around human habitations and is usually found where water is available.

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Hand axes mark an evolutionary advance in human history tools fashioned to function as what Darwinians call fitness signals that is to say, displays that are performances like the peacock's tail, except that, unlike hair and feathers, the hand axes are consciously cleverly crafted.

Just as the peacock signals his strength and fitness by displaying his enormous tail a sheer waste of resources from a practical point of view so costly public acts of benevolence signal to potential mates that one possesses enough resources to give so much away.