The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
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...Chapter 3: Genetic Algorithms in Scientific Models 75 Fisher (1930) proposed that this process could result in a feedback loop between females' preference for a certain trait and the strength and frequency of that trait in males....
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...Cost and benefit were defined above without reference to the ages, and hence reproductive values (Fisher, 1958), of the individuals involved in an altruistic exchange....
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...Reproductive value is defined actuarially in units of expected future reproduction - the extent to which persons of a given age and sex will contribute, on average, to the ancestry of future generations (Fisher 1930)....
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...In humans and other mammals, male parental investment tends to be less than female parental investment (Fisher 1930; Trivers 1972; Williams 1975)....
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...Because of the powerful reproductive consequences of preferential mating, it is reasonable to assume that mate preferences will depart from randomness and evolve through sexual selection (Darwin 1859; 1871; Fisher 1930)....
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...However, the fact that each individual must have one parent of each sex, and hence that males and females have equal reproductive value (Fisher 1930), constrains the divergence of male and female life history traits in species with a 1:1 sex ratio....
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