ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2017
Reproductive competition and sexual selection.
Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.
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- Stay or go? Changing breeding conditions affect sexual difference in colony attendance strategies of Atlantic puffinsEcology and evolution · 2024Article
- Juvenile social play predicts adult reproductive success in male bottlenose dolphins.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Mating competition among females: testing the distinction between natural and sexual selection in an insect.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Competitive and cooperative games for probing the neural basis of social decision-making in animals.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2023Review
- The impact of small groups on pre- and postcopulatory sexual selection in polyandrous populations.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Married women with children experience greater intrasexual competition than their male counterparts.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Extreme polygyny results in intersex differences in age-dependent survival of a highly dimorphic marine mammal.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Female cooperation: evolutionary, cross-cultural and ethnographic evidence.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
This paper traces the development of our understanding of the development of different approaches to estimating the strength of reproductive competition and sexual selection in the two sexes, based on measures of the operational sex ratio, the opportunity for sexual selection and contrasts in selection gradients between the sexes. It argues that different approaches provide complementary insights into the causes of sex differences in reproductive competition, the operation of sexual selection and the evolution of secondary sexual characters and that improvements in our understanding of the evolution of secondary sexual characters will require a more comprehensive understanding of the ways in which social and ecological conditions modify reproductive competition and development in females and males.This article is part of the themed issue 'Adult sex ratios and reproductive decisions: a critical re-examination of sex differences in human and animal societies'.
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