It drives the evolution of traits that enhance reproductive success, even if those traits might not always contribute to an individual’s survival This process explains why certain characteristics, behaviors, or physical. Sexual selection is a special mode of natural selection in which the mating preferences of one sex determine the phenotype of the other sex within a species It relates to the ability of an organism to obtain and successfully compete for copulation with its mate. Sexual selection, theory in postulating that the evolution of certain conspicuous physical traits—such as pronounced coloration, increased size, or striking adornments—in animals may grant the possessors of these traits greater success in obtaining mates From the perspective of natural selection,
Sexual selection is a “special case” of natural selection Sexual selection acts on an organism’s ability to obtain (often by any means necessary!) or successfully copulate with a mate. Sexual selection is a concept that has probably been misunderstood and misrepresented more than any other idea in evolutionary biology, confusion that continues to the present day We are not entirely sure why this is, but sexual politics seems to have played its role, as does a failure to understand what sexual selection is and why it was initially invoked While in some ways less intuitive. Sexual selection is a key component of evolutionary biology
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