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The definition of sexual selection.
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- Stronger net selection on males across animals.eLife · 2021Pooled it
- Sexual Selection as a Driver of Shared Neural and Reproductive Mechanisms.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- The Effect of Differing Levels of Intrasexual and Intersexual Selection on Survival and Reproduction Under a Heatwave.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Navigating the Semantic Labyrinth of "Sex" in the Study of Reproductive Trait Evolution.Integrative and comparative biology · 2026Article
- Explaining sex: contrast between social and sexual selection.Biology of sex differences · 2025Review
- Ejaculate Ejection by Female Fruit Flies Does Not Correlate With Mating Latency or Male Presence, Irrespective of How Ejection Is Measured.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Seasonal changes in coat colour and sexual size dimorphism in a subtropical ungulate.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Uncovering Sexual Differences in the External Morphology, Appendicular Muscles, and Internal Organs of a Fossorial Narrow-Mouth Frog (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Sexual size and shape dimorphism are consistent with predictions that both natural and sexual selection are driving the evolution of sexual dimorphism in Mormon crickets, Anabrus simplex.BMC ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Choosiness as a Predictor of Sexual (In)frequency in Single Heterosexual Adults.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- A male-biased sex ratio increases the opportunity for precopulatory sexual selection but does not change the Bateman gradient.Evolution letters · 2025Article
- QInfoMating: sexual selection and assortative mating estimation software.BMC ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Natural Variation in Sexual Traits and Gene Expression between Selfing and Outcrossing Arabidopsis lyrata Suggests Sexual Selection at Work.Plant & cell physiology · 2025Article
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- Variation in plumage reflectance but not song reflects spatial cognitive performance in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus).Animal cognition · 2025Article
- Yeti claws: Cheliped sexual dimorphism and symmetry in deep-sea yeti crabs (Kiwaidae).PloS one · 2025Article
- Non-random mating behaviour between diverging littoral and pelagic three-spined sticklebacks in an invasive population from Upper Lake Constance.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Using Rhodamine to Tag Mites for Studies of Pre- and Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- The logic of conventional and reversed Bateman gradients.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- The evolution of ageing: classic theories and emerging ideas.Biogerontology · 2024Review
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Abstract
Sexual selection is a key component of evolutionary biology. However, from the very formulation of sexual selection by Darwin, the nature and extent of sexual selection have been controversial. Recently, such controversy has led back to the fundamental question of just what sexual selection is. This has included how we incorporate female-female reproductive competition into sexual or natural selection. In this review, we do four things. First, we examine what we want a definition to do. Second, we define sexual selection:
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