Comparative evolutionary psychology of sperm competition.
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Comparative evolutionary psychology of sperm competition.
A comparative evolutionary psychological perspective predicts that species that recurrently faced similar adaptive problems may have evolved similar psychological mechanisms to solve these problems. Sperm competition provides an arena in which to assess the heuristic value of such a comparative evolutionary perspective. The sperm competition that results from female infidelity and polyandry pre...
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Sexual selection is the mechanism that favors an increase in the frequency of alleles associated with reproduction (Darwin, 1871). Darwin distinguished sexual selection from natural selection, but today most evolutionary scientists combine the two concepts under the name, natural selection. Sexual selection is composed of intrasexual competition (competition between members of the same sex for ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Comparative Psychology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1939-2087,0735-7036
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.120.2.139