Experience matters: Females use smell to select experienced males for paternal care [PDF]
, 2009 Mate choice and mating preferences often rely on the information content of signals exchanged between potential partners. In species where a female's reproduction is the terminal event in life it is to be expected that females choose high quality males ...
Fletcher, Nichola +4 more
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Further support for the role of heroism in human mate choice [PDF]
, 2020 This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by the American Psychological Association in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences on 03-09-2020. The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version, accessible at ...
Bartlett, James, Bhogal, Manpal
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Face and voice attractiveness judgments change during adolescence [PDF]
, 2009 Attractivenessjudgments are thought to underpin adaptive mate choice decisions. We investigated how these judgmentschange during adolescence when mate choice is becoming relevant.
DeBruine, Lisa +4 more
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Voice pitch preferences of adolescents: Do changes across time indicate a shift towards potentially adaptive adult-like preferences? [PDF]
, 2013 An evolutionary approach to attractiveness judgments emphasises that many human trait preferences exist in order to assist adaptive mate choice. Here we test an adaptive development hypothesis, whereby voice pitch preferences indicating potential mate ...
DeBruine, Lisa +4 more
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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 adapt more dynamically to (unpredictable) environmental changes.
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Female Mate Choice is Influenced by Male Sport Participation [PDF]
, 2008 Sexual selection theory argues that females invest more heavily in reproduction than males and thus tend to be choosier in terms of mate choice. Sport may provide a context within which females can gain information about male quality to inform this ...
Eys, Mark A. +2 more
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Mate choice for neutral and MHC genetic characteristics in Alpine marmots : different targets in different contexts? [PDF]
, 2016 We warmly thank all students and Earthwatch volunteers involved in catching the marmots and the authorities of the Vanoise National Park for granting us permission to work in the Grande Sassière Nature Reserve. We thank M.
Allainé, Dominique +3 more
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Do female association preferences predict the likelihood of reproduction? [PDF]
, 2010 Sexual selection acting on male traits through female mate choice is commonly inferred from female association preferences in dichotomous mate choice experiments.
A Bisazza +50 more
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Characterization of spotted hyena, Crocuta crocuta microsatellite loci [PDF]
, 2003 We have isolated 10 polymorphic microsatellite loci in the spotted hyena,Crocuta crocuta.The loci displayed between eight and 14 alleles in a minimum of 12 individuals tested.
Altschul +18 more
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Reproductive isolation between two sympatric simultaneous hermaphroditic shrimp, Lysmata wurdemanni and L. boggessi [PDF]
, 2009 To investigate pre- and post-zygotic isolation between two sympatric and phylogenetically related species of Lysmata shrimp, two assays were conducted in the laboratory: (1) no specific mate choice where mating between the two species was ‘forced’; (2 ...
Hardege, Jörg D. +3 more
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