Mate choice is one of the primary mechanisms under which evolution can occur. It is characterized by a "selective response by animals to particular stimuli"...

mate, females exhibit more mate choice selectivity than males, as is seen in nature. Relative to most other animals however, female and male mating strategies...

Mate-choice copying, or non-independent mate choice, occurs when an individual of an animal species copies another individual's mate choice. In other...

number of females a male can mate with. This introduces the ability for selection to favor male mate choice. Male mate choice is rarely studied or observed...

of most species surviving only a few matings and consequently having short life-spans. Pre-copulatory mate choice processes have been observed in a wide...

Look up mate or Mate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mate may refer to: Mate, one of a pair of animals involved in: Mate choice, intersexual selection...

a similar mate value, to avoid rejection. Specifically, one could infer that one's own mate value has a direct impact upon partner choice through the...

then characterized by male-male competitions influenced by female mate choice. Mating seasons fluctuate based on species dependent on geographical location...

potential mating partners. Greater choice and variety of mates increases a female's chance to produce more viable offspring. However, multiple mates for a...

hypotheses have attempted to explain how parasite load influences female mate choice, as certain traits are thought to be costly and the expression of such...

test due to the amount of variance and flexibility exhibited in human mate choice. A hybrid resolution to psychological adaptations and learned behaviours...

S2CID 53161684. Bradbury, J. E. and Gibson, R. M. (1983) Leks and mate choice. In: Mate Choice (ed. P. Bateson). pp. 109–138. Cambridge University Press....

word ὕλη (hūlē, "forest" or "wood"). The mating systems across most species of Hyla largely feature female choice based on male calling effort. The specific...

There is also the concept of color association to possibly explain mate choice since one of the food sources wild guppies compete vigorously for is...

higher chance of mating with a female. Females exercise mate choice, rejecting unwanted and unfit males by cannibalizing them. Mate choice often correlates...

Oecologia, 55: 258 - 263 Hughes, A. L., and Hughes, M. K. (1985). Female choice of mates in polygynous insect, the whitespotted sawyer Monochamus scutellatus...

Dhondt, André (1998). "Mate Selection by Male Winter Moths Operophtera brumata (Lepidoptera, Geometrldae): Adaptive Male Choice or Female Control?". Behaviour...

display mate choice, a phenomenon termed as mutual mate choice. Mutual mate choice occurs when both males and females are searching for a mate that will...

pair bonding ends after mouth brooding begins. An experiment studying mate choice in the mango tilapia shows results of the correlation between operational...

potential running mates in the following days. The Hill also reported on July 30 that while Harris had not yet finalized her running mate choice, she planned...

The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature is a 2003 book by Geoffrey Miller. Miller argues that the vast majority of human...

either monogamous or polygamous, which leads to differing patterns of mate choice and parental care. Environmental conditions play a large part in dictating...

A lekking species is characterised by male displays, strong female mate choice, and the conferring of indirect benefits to males and reduced costs to...

cryptic choice – the use of multiple sperm receptacles to store sperm from different males, allowing a later choice of which to use. Mate choice also varies...

not consider them in mate selection. R. marginata however show no indication of discriminating against nestmates for mate choice in both males and females...

The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us is a 2017 book by the ornithologist and evolutionary...

in which an animal, usually a male, attempts to attract a mate; the mate exercises choice, so sexual selection acts on the display. These behaviors often...

Clarke FM, Faulkes CG (October 1999). "Kin discrimination and female mate choice in the naked mole-rat Heterocephalus glaber". Proceedings. Biological...

mating system in which one male lives and mates with multiple females but each female only mates with a few males. Systems where several females mate...

investment in relationships, sexual arousal, performance of oral sex, and mate choice. Human males have several physiological adaptations that have evolved...