Integrative biology and sexual selection
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Michael J. Ryan; Kellar Autumn; David B. Wake
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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Sexual selection by female choice has been defined operationally as a change in male fitness due to variance in the number of mates, and studies of population biology have demonstrated this effect clearly. We argue that sexual selection is a richer phenomenon than this narrow definition implies, inv