Size Does Matter in Bats' Evolution
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — For some male bats, sexual prowess comes with a price -- smaller brains. A research team led by Syracuse University biologist Scott Pitnick found that in bat species where the females are promiscuous, the males boasting the largest testicles also had the smallest brains. Conversely, where the females were faithful, the males had smaller testes and larger brains.
"It turns out size does matter," said Pitnick, whose findings were published in December in "Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Science," an online journal.
The study offers evidence that males -- at least in some species -- make an evolutionary trade-off between intelligence and sexual prowess, said David Hoskens, a biologist at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter in England and a leading authority on bats' mating behavior.
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So why is sexual evolution so damn predictable? Unfaithfully, slutty female bats? Well, large testicles are your answer! I suppose adaptation is a general relation, but it's my impression that these sorts of relations are so much more pronounced when it's sex on the line.