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NL888 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Should postcopulatory be precopulatory? If not, how to understand the logic?

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Penis size interacts with body shape and height to influence male attractiveness.

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Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.
Abstract
Compelling evidence from many animal taxa indicates that male genitalia are often under postcopulatory sexual selection for characteristics that increase a male's relative fertilization success. There could, however, also be direct precopulatory female mate choice based on male genital traits. Before clothing, the nonretractable human penis would have been conspicuous to potential mates. This observation has generated suggestions that human penis size partly evolved because of female choice. Here we show, based upon female assessment of digitally projected life-size, computer-generated images, that penis size interacts with body shape and height to determine male sexual attractiveness. Positive linear selection was detected for penis size, but the marginal increase in attractiveness eventually declined with greater penis size (i.e., quadratic selection). Penis size had a stronger effect on attractiveness in taller men than in shorter men. There was a similar increase in the positive effect of penis size on attractiveness with a more masculine body shape (i.e., greater shoulder-to-hip ratio). Surprisingly, larger penis size and greater height had almost equivalent positive effects on male attractiveness. Our results support the hypothesis that female mate choice could have driven the evolution of larger penises in humans. More broadly, our results show that precopulatory sexual selection can play a role in the evolution of genital traits.
  

Top answer

The text seems fine to me as written. The act of copulation is only one stage in the process of ireproduction. The writer is discussing what happens before and also after copulation.

  • The text seems fine to me as written.
  • The act of copulation is only one stage in the process of ireproduction.
  • The writer is discussing what happens before and also after copulation.
  • [ Do you know that copulation is also an important aspect of grammar?
  • eg the verb 'be' is called a copular verb.
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The text seems fine to me as written.
The act of copulation is only one stage in the process of ireproduction. The writer is discussing what happens before and also after copulation.

[ Do you know that copulation is also an important aspect of grammar?

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