Peter R. Grant
Peter R. Grant
Peter Raymond Grant FRS and Barbara Rosemary Grant FRS, a married couple, are both British evolutionary biologists at Princeton University; each holds the position of Emeritus Professor. They are noted for their work concerning Darwin's finches on the Galápagos Island named Daphne Major. The Grants have spent six months of the year each year since 1973 capturing, tagging, and taking blood samples of the finches on the island...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
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courtship male particular studies
Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.
courtship transmit
Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays.
constitute courtship features major
Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.
behavioral determined early females fixed inherited learning life male manner particular responses
To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.