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Evolutionary Psychology, 2015 Information about prospective mates is typically acquired in a sequential and cumulative fashion. The aim of this study was to examine whether a reject-the-worst strategy is more efficient than an accept-the-best strategy for women in response to serial ...
Melanie Li-Wen Long, Anne Campbell
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Mate Choice, Sex Roles and Sexual Cognition in Vertebrates: Mate Choice Turns Cognition or Cognition Turns Mate Choice? [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 The idea of “smart is sexy,” meaning superior cognition provides competitive benefits in mate choice and, therefore, evolutionary advantages in terms of reproductive fitness, is both exciting and captivating. Cognitively flexible individuals perceive and
Theodora Fuss
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Designing mate choice experiments
Biological Reviews, 2020 ABSTRACTThe important role that mate choice plays in the lives of animals is matched by the large and active research field dedicated to studying it. Researchers work on a wide range of species and behaviours, and so the experimental approaches used to measure animal mate choice are highly variable.
Liam R. Dougherty
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Financial Status of Model, Target, and Observer Modulates Mate Choice Copying and the Mediating Effect of Personality [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesThis study investigates the phenomenon of mate choice copying, wherein an individual (the observer) utilizes the assessments of peers of the same sex (the models) regarding a potential partner of the opposite sex (the target), thereby emulating the mate ...
Guomei Zhou, Shaxiao Ma, Di Wu
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Social learning about mate choices is taxonomically widespread, and is a potentially important mechanism of social evolution that may affect the strength of sexual selection in a population. We used a meta-analytic approach to estimate the effect of mate-
Blake Carlton Jones, Emily H. DuVal
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Good vs complementary genes for parasite resistance and the evolution of mate choice [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2004 Background Female mate choice may be adaptive when males exhibit heritable genetic variation at loci encoding resistance to infectious disease. The Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis predicts that females should assess the genetic quality of males by monitoring ...
Lively Curtis M, Howard R Stephen
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Female brain size affects the assessment of male attractiveness during mate choice [PDF]
Science Advances, 2017 Mate choice decisions are central in sexual selection theory aimed to understand how sexual traits evolve and their role in evolutionary diversification.
Bloch, NI +6 more
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Sex Differences in Mate Choice Preference Characteristics of Aequidens rivulatus [PDF]
Animals, 2022 The mating roles of males and females, to a certain extent, are dynamic and variable. Several factors influence the mate choice process. Nonetheless, the main preference features have not yet been fully understood in Aequidens rivulatus.
Haixia Li +6 more
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Genetic Variation in Male Mate Choice for Large Females in Drosophila melanogaster [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionMales in many species show courtship and mating preferences for certain females over others when given the choice. One of the most common targets of male mate choice in insects is female body size, with males preferring to court and mate with larger ...
Grace S. Freed +4 more
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Hearing, touching, and multisensory integration during mate choice [PDF]
Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2022 Mate choice is a potent generator of diversity and a fundamental pillar for sexual selection and evolution. Mate choice is a multistage affair, where complex sensory information and elaborate actions are used to identify, scrutinize, and evaluate ...
Constanze Lenschow +2 more
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