TESTABLE HYPOTHESIS. “One way to test the extent to which male and female contributions are operating cooperatively or antagonistically is to study how they evolve if sexual selection is experimentally eliminated. Removing female choice and competition for mates eliminates sexual conflict – any amount of harm to females would become detrimental to the reproductive success of both sexes.”
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jeb.12763/full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022