Studies of Female Platyfish, Whose Male Counterparts Have a Variety

Multiple Choice

Studies of female platyfish, whose male counterparts have a variety of tail shapes, show that the females have a preference for male fish with artificial swordlike structures attached to their tails.This observation is most consistent with the

A) notion of a molecular clock.
B) maximum likelihood principle.
C) sensory exploitation hypothesis.
D) principle of homoplasy.
E) parsimony principle.