Discussion on Birds- Meservey

 The podcast on birds in our final class was very interesting to me. I love the idea of female birds changing the evolution of the males. The fact that the males will choose to be more beautiful even though it harms them evolutionarily is so cool. It poses so many questions that are unanswerable: does this have some evolutionary benefit that we don't know? Do birds recognize beauty? Is beauty more important than evolutionary success? I never knew the things about birds that we learned from the podcast, and it was a great learning experience for me.