Meanwhile…

Meanwhile, in a lab full of frogs…

Too many choices complicate female frogs’ sex lives sciencenews.org

Female frogs given a choice of one or two calling males picked the better singer; add more voices and their preference fell apart, and they settled for males they would otherwise have rejected. Choice overload, it seems, is not a human invention - and in a noisy chorus it may be what gives mediocre males a chance.

From the edition published .