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Nature 458, 831 (16 April 2009) | doi:10.1038/458831d; Published online 15 April 2009

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More acclaim for Darwin's theory of sexual selection

See associated Correspondence: Smith, Nature 459, 321 (May 2009)

David J. Hosken1

  1. School of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9EZ, UK
    Email: d.j.hosken@exeter.ac.uk

In this bicentennial year of Charles Darwin's birth, it is gratifying to see Nature devoting a wealth of comment to the great man and to evolution. But like much other scholarly perspective, your emphasis is on natural selection, the first of Darwin's great ideas.