Selected Literature

Animal Weapons – The Evolution of Battle Doug Emlen, 2014. (Amazon link)

“Exaggerated Trait Growth in Insects” [2015]
http://hs.umt.edu/dbs/labs/emlen/documents/lab%20publications/LavineEtAl_2015.pdf

Stephen Gould Irish Elk essay: http://www.wou.edu/~snyderj/Biology%20101%20-%20Ecology,%20Evolution,%20and%20Diversity/Articles/Gould%20-%20The%20Misnamed%20Mistreated%20and%20Misunderstood%20Irish%20Elk.pdf

“Why Sexually Selected Weapons Are Not Ornaments” [2016]
http://hs.umt.edu/dbs/labs/emlen/documents/lab%20publications/mccullough-etal-2016-tree.pdf

“Sexual Sexual Selection and Sexual Dimorphism in the Harlequin Beetle Acrocinus longimanus”
http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_7/b_fdi_55-56/010023131.pdf

“Insights into the Development and Evolution of Exaggerated Traits Using De Novo Transcriptomes of Two Species of Horned Scarab Beetles” [2014]
http://hs.umt.edu/dbs/labs/emlen/documents/Emlen%20Publications/WarrenEtal2014.pdf

Beetle horns and horned beetles: emerging models in developmental evolution and ecology

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3694607/