Evolutional Dirty Dancing

They say that average man thinks of sex every six minutes, while average woman thinks of it at least once a day. If we think so much about sex, have you ever wondered why do we have it? Why males and females? Biologists say that sex is evolutional adaptation. We will show you that certain characteristics and behaviours, such as peacock’s tale and suicidal spiders, make sense if we understand evolutional dirty dancing, also known as mechanisms of sexual selection. And finally, our understanding of influence of sex on shaping of animals leads to quite an interesting question: Are certain human characteristics and behaviours results of evolutional sex-pressure?

Who

Mirko Đorđević
Student molekularne biologije
Pobednik internacionalnog takmičenja
"Laboratorija slavnih"

When

Friday, December 4th, 2009. 4:00 PM

Where