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Sex-ratio and male sexual characters in a population of Blue tits Parus caeruleus
2005
Sex allocation theory proposes that parents should bias the sex ratio of their offspring if the reproductive value of one sex is greater than that of the other. In the monogamous blue tit (Parus caeruleus), males have a greater variance in reproductive success than females, and high-quality males have higher reproductive success than high-quality females due to extrapair paternity. Consequently, females mating with attractive males are expected to produce broods biased toward sons, as sons benefit more than daughters from inheriting their father’s characteristics. Song and plumage color in birds are secondary sexual characters indicating male quality and involved in female choice. We used t…
Una aproximación a la Electra de Sófocles desde el prólogo y la párodos
2008
Sófocles se esfuerza por lograr una integración mayor del coro en la acción dramática, a la vez que focaliza la acción del héroe en el marco en el que éste se mueve. En los primeros versos de esta tragedia, en particular en el prólogo y en la párodos, a través de las estructuras iterativas, podemos vislumbrar las claves de los conflictos profundos de esta saga que aflorarán finalmente en la forma de matricidio. Y desde esos primeros versos, esas claves se proyectan a otros lugares de la tragedia formando un tejido complejo que arroja no poca luz sobre ella. Sophocles strove to bring about a greater integration of the chorus into the dramatic action at the same time as he focused the action …
La poetica dei cori di Nelly Sachs
2019
Italian translation from Swedish of Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback essay "La poetica dei cori di Nelly Sachs" which presents a reading of Nelly Sachs’ poetics focusing on how her poetry begins «in the Habitations of Death» as a multitude of choruses inside a chorus in relation to Aristotle’s concept of the tragic chorus and in relation to Diderot’s and Schiller’s poetics of a chorus.