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Natural selection and specialized chorusing behavior in acoustical insects
Richard D. Alexander
- pp 35-77
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The social behaviour of anuran amphibians
TL;DR: Temporal patterns of anuran reproduction fall into two broad categories: prolonged breeding and explosive breeding, and many aspects of vocal behaviour and chorus organization can be viewed as consequences of intrasexual competition.
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Mammalian mating systems.
TL;DR: Much of the variation in mammalian mating bonds and systems of mate guarding can be attributed to differences in these three variables: the effect of male assistance in rearing young and to the defensibility of females by males.
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Armaments and ornaments: an evolutionary explanation of traits of dual utility
TL;DR: Secondary sexual characters in many species function both in male-male competition and as cues for female choice, and a literature compilation of existing knowledge of traits with this dual role is compiled.
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Lonely hearts or sex in the city? Density-dependent effects in mating systems
Hanna Kokko,Daniel J. Rankin +1 more
TL;DR: Considering density-dependent selection may be essential for understanding how populations can persist at all despite sexual conflict, but simple models seem to fail to predict the diversity of observed responses in nature.
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The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour. I
TL;DR: A genetical mathematical model is described which allows for interactions between relatives on one another's fitness and a quantity is found which incorporates the maximizing property of Darwinian fitness, named “inclusive fitness”.
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Parental investment and sexual selection
TL;DR: The p,cnetics of sex nas now becn clarif ied, and Fishcr ( 1958 ) hrs produccd , n,od"l to cxplarn sex ratios at coDception, a nrodel recently extendcd to include special mccha_ nisms that operate under inbreeding (Hunrilron I96?).
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The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism
TL;DR: In this paper, a model is presented to account for the natural selection of what is termed reciprocally altruistic behavior, and the model shows how selection can operate against the cheater (non-reciprocator) in the system.
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Natural selection of parental ability to vary the sex ratio of offspring.
Robert Trivers,Dan E. Willard +1 more
TL;DR: Theory and data suggest that a male in good condition at the end of the period of parental investment is expected to outreproduce a sister in similar condition, while she is expectedto outre produce him if both are in poor condition, and natural selection should favor parental ability to adjust the sex ratio of offspring produced according to parental able to invest.
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Parent-Offspring Conflict
TL;DR: In this paper, the parent-offspring conflict in sexually reproducing species is viewed from the standpoint of the offspring as well as the parent, and it is shown that conflict is an expected feature of such relations.