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    Sexual selection is a mode of natural selection in which members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with (intersexual selection)...
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    Sexual selection in humans concerns the concept of sexual selection, introduced by Charles Darwin as an element of his theory of natural selection, as...
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    mainly through sexual selection. These differences may be subtle or exaggerated and may be subjected to sexual selection and natural selection. The opposite...
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    Sexual selection in birds concerns how birds have evolved a variety of mating behaviors, with the peacock tail being perhaps the most famous example of...
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    attract females, and the showy features of the males had evolved by sexual selection. More recently, Amotz Zahavi proposed in his handicap principle that...
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  • Sexual selection has been observed in fungi as a part of their reproduction, although they also often reproduce asexually. In the basidiomycetes, the sex...
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  • Sexual selection is described as natural selection arising through preference by one sex for certain characteristics in individuals of the other sex. Sexual...
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    Sexual selection in amphibians involves sexual selection processes in amphibians, including frogs, salamanders and newts. Prolonged breeders, the majority...
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    Sexual selection in spiders shows how sexual selection explains the evolution of phenotypic traits in spiders. Male spiders have many complex courtship...
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    Sexual selection in mammals is a process the study of which started with Charles Darwin's observations concerning sexual selection, including sexual selection...
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    Sexual selection in insects is about how sexual selection functions in insects. The males of some species have evolved exaggerated adornments and mechanisms...
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    as sexual selection. Female bodies also prefer traits that confer the lowest cost to their reproductive health, which is known as fecundity selection. Natural...
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    biggest factors that leads to the development of sexual dimorphism in shorebirds is sexual selection. Males with ideal characteristics favored by females...
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    usually identified through observation of that individual's sexual characteristics. Sexual selection or mate choice can accelerate the evolution of differences...
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    advantage of sexual reproduction is that it increases genetic diversity and impedes the accumulation of harmful genetic mutations. Sexual selection is a mode...
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    details his theory of sexual selection, a form of biological adaptation distinct from, yet interconnected with, natural selection. The book discusses many...
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    is an individual's ability to attract other people sexually, and is a factor in sexual selection or mate choice. The attraction can be to the physical...
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    Fisherian runaway or runaway selection is a sexual selection mechanism proposed by the mathematical biologist Ronald Fisher in the early 20th century...
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  • to explain age disparity in sexual relationships in terms of natural selection and sexual selection. Within sexual selection, Darwin identified a further...
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    systems in the sexual selection of primates. Extant primates exhibit a broad range of variation in sexual size dimorphism (SSD), or sexual divergence in...
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    first, testes and ovaries evolved due to natural selection. A consensus has emerged that sexual selection represents a primary factor for genital evolution...
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  • found sexually attractive by many men is in agreement with sexual selection acting on human females secondary sexual characteristics. Sexual selection for...
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    characteristics acted upon by sexual selection. Sexual dimorphisms and reproductive organs can also be affected by sexual selection in flowering plants. Charles...
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    also be seen in the chase-away sexual selection model, which places inter-sexual conflicts in the context of secondary sexual characteristic evolution, sensory...
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    nature. In 1871, he examined human evolution and sexual selection in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, followed by The Expression of...
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    body size and sexual dimorphism can affect one's survival. This leads to opposing pressures of natural selection and sexual selection. Larger males are...
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    Festa-Bianchet, M; Jorgenson, J; Strobeck, C (2002). "Age-Dependent Sexual Selection in Bighorn Rams". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences...
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    selection is a term used with varying meanings in biology. Joan Roughgarden proposed a hypothesis called social selection as an alternative to sexual...
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    other males. Unlike sexual selection in males, visible color differences among males do not play an important role in mate selection by females. Females...
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    evidence for the evolution of sexual dimorphism in grouse is sexual selection. Sexual selection favors large males; stronger selection for larger size in males...
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