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:: The important thing here was that *competition for potential mates*
:: may have been exceptionally high, although given how cutthroat it is
:: in the rest of the animal kingdom, I personally doubt that.

: "Gene Ward Smith" <gwsmith@xxxxxxxxx>
: Why in hell would it be high? Are we to assume females died off
: selectively because of a volcano?

Hm. Isn't the issue that survivability of a population isn't
all that sensitive to the death of males, and so increased deadly
competition between males isn't an overriding problem?

In any event, popping back a level, I doubt that a population pinch would
lead to sexual selection based on reckless, testosterone-toxicity-related
behavior, nor particularly encourage such reckless behavior.


Wayne Throop throopw@xxxxxxxxx http://sheol.org/throopw
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