On the aerodynamics of birds’ tails

The genetical theory of natural selection

1930 • 17,330 citations

The descent of man and selection in relation to sex

1907 • 11,265 citations

Mate selection—A selection for a handicap

1975 • 5,212 citations

Fundamentals of Aerodynamics

2010 • 3,801 citations

Heritable True Fitness and Bright Birds: A Role for Parasites?

1982 • 3,696 citations

Biological signals as handicaps

1990 • 2,442 citations

Models of speciation by sexual selection on polygenic traits

1981 • 2,233 citations

SEXUAL DIMORPHISM, SEXUAL SELECTION, AND ADAPTATION IN POLYGENIC CHARACTERS

1980 • 1,644 citations

MECHANICS OF FLIGHT

1975 • 1,031 citations

Female choice selects for extreme tail length in a widowbird

1982 • 952 citations

The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex

1871 • 822 citations

Female choice selects for male sexual tail ornaments in the monogamous swallow

1988 • 638 citations

Low-speed aerodynamics : from wing theory to panel methods

1991 • 601 citations

Sexual selection unhandicapped by the fisher process

1990 • 591 citations

Bird Flight Performance: A Practical Calculation Manual

1992 • 573 citations

Predictions of vortex-lift characteristics by a leading-edge suctionanalogy

1971 • 522 citations

High-Lift Aerodynamics

1975 • 510 citations

Female swallow preference for symmetrical male sexual ornaments

1992 • 452 citations

Vertebrate Flight: Mechanics, Physiology, Morphology, Ecology and Evolution

1990 • 441 citations

The flight of petrels and albatrosses (procellariiformes), observed in South Georgia and its vicinity

1982 • 345 citations

Theories of sexual selection

1991 • 327 citations

Viability costs of male tail ornaments in a swallow

1989 • 216 citations

A Wind-Tunnel Study of Gliding Flight in the Pigeon Columba Livia

1968 • 212 citations

Aerodynamics and the evolution of long tails in birds

1993 • 185 citations

Momentum and Energy in the Wake of a Pigeon (Columba Livia) in Slow Flight

1984 • 184 citations

The Wake of a Kestrel (Falco Tinnunculus) in Gliding Flight

1987 • 178 citations

Female preference for long tails in lekking Jackson's widowbirds: experimental evidence

1992 • 167 citations

The aerodynamic and mechanical effects of elongated tails in the scarlet-tufted malachite sunbird: measuring the cost of a handicap

1992 • 140 citations

Female preference for apparently symmetrical male sexual ornaments in the barn swallow Hirundo rustica

1993 • 123 citations

THE THEORY OF INDUCED LIFT AND MINIMUM INDUCED DRAG OF NONPLANAR LIFTING SYSTEMS

1962 • 103 citations

Gliding Birds: The Effect of Variable Wing Span

1987 • 96 citations

Gliding Flight of the White-Backed Vulture Gyps Africanus

1971 • 93 citations

An experimental study of male adornment in the scarlet-tufted malachite sunbird: II. The role of the elongated tail in mate choice and experimental evidence for a handicap

1992 • 92 citations

An experimental study of male adornment in the scarlet-tufted malachite sunbird: I. The role of pectoral tufts in territorial defence

1992 • 92 citations

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IN THE EVOLUTION OF ANIMAL FLIGHT

1952 • 78 citations

Wing Theory

1990 • 74 citations

The Flight of Birds

1953 • 74 citations

Aerodynamics of gliding flight in a harris’ hawk, Parabuteo Unicinctus

1990 • 60 citations

Body drag, feather drag and interference drag of the mounting strut in a peregrine falcon, Falco Peregrinus

1990 • 54 citations

Swallowing ornamental asymmetry

1992 • 46 citations

Control of Gliding Angle in Rüppell’s Griffon Vulture Gyps Rüppellii

1971 • 43 citations

Some Advanced Flight Manoeuvres of Bats

1976 • 37 citations

Lateral aerodynamics of delta wings with leading-edge separation

1984 • 33 citations

Wing flapping with minimum energy

1980 • 29 citations

Lek mating and sexual selection in Jackson's widowbird Euplectes jacksoni

1992 • 9 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations