sexual selection

Sexual selection would certainly have been a powerful driving force behind evolution in northern Europeans.

"We suggest the mane's evolution is the result of sexual selection, " said West, a doctoral candidate whose dissertation led to the paper.

Researchers have tended to consider human sexual selection through the lens of the female's choice of her mate.

Consider the vast antlers of the north American bull elk: they're the result of sexual selection balanced by other selective pressures.

His shimmering train of feathers tipped with eye-shaped spots ranks among the most cited examples of what Darwin called sexual selection.

This is curious because the idea of female choice was such an integral (albeit controversial) component of his concept of sexual selection.

That was a momentous observation. We realized that the eggs kicked off the entire sexual selection process.

In terms of sexual selection, there's definitely something going on around symmetry.

Some biologists go so far as to blame sexual selection for the conspicuous consumption that threatens humanity's future.

But if music is functional, it may be that sexual selection and social selection have actually given each other a helping hand.

Love and Sex. Sexual Selection, Attraction, Beauty, Commitment, Conflict, Sexual Politics.

Or the trait could have become common through sexual selection, because people found it attractive in their partners.

Studies of threatened bird species suggest that sexual selection can indeed drive populations to extinction.

The phenomenon, driven by sexual selection, becomes more pronounced when male-like females are common relative to males.

This process of sexual selection, Dr Miller and his followers believe, is the reason people have become so brainy.

Social grooming, rather like sexual selection, is therefore a costly (and thus honest) signal.

He later came up with sexual selection: Gaudy peacocks please peahens and pass on their genes.

This means sexual selection, not other evolutionary mechanisms, is probably at work.

Dr Puts is looking at how sexual selection gave rise to certain human traits.

The process in this case is driven, not by natural selection (predation pressure), but by sexual selection.

Sadly for the elks and happily for the wolves, that's not how sexual selection works.

Some scholars, however, draw an analogy with sexual selection.

It's this Darwinian process of sexual selection that's at the core of Sexual Nature.

The recognition of sexual selection was for a long time in abeyance, but has been rehabilitated.

That is characteristic of the consequences of sexual selection.

"fancy" , the myriad beauty of feathers for sexual selection in birds and decoration for humans;

The progresses in studies of insect sexual selection behaviors