Biology: How Life Works
Biology: How Life Works
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Author: James Morris, Daniel Hartl, Andrew Knoll, Melissa Michael, Robert Lue, Andrew Berry, Andrew Biewener, Brian Farrell, N. Michele Holbrook
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
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Chapter 20.4, Problem 11SAQ
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Whether sexual selection leads to stabilizing, directional or disruptive selection in males.

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Sexual selection is driving force for reproductive success. It favours or helps in formation of characters that improves and ensures reproductive success. Biologically, the two main aims of life are to survive and reproduce. The characters that sexual selection develops are physically expensive which is against the principles of natural selection Thus, at times natural selection (favoring survival) and sexual selection (favoring reproduction) work against each other. Although they settle somewhere in the middle.

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