Plumage Episode 1: Love is a Battlefield
Feb 09, 2018•16 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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Episode description
Harvard PhD student Dakota McCoy, who studies Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, asks why birds of paradise evolved to have brightly colored feathers. Then she asks an even bigger question: Why did some of these brightly colored birds also develop super-black feathers?
Learn more about Dakota McCoy's research.
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