It relates to the ability of an organism to obtain and successfully compete for copulation with its mate. Sexual selection versus natural selection while both sexual selection and natural selection are mechanisms of evolution, they operate under distinct pressures Natural selection favors traits that increase an organism’s survival and reproductive output. 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 key component of evolutionary biology However, from the very formulation of sexual selection by darwin, the nature and extent of sexual selection have been controversial Recently, such controversy has led back to the. First introduced by charles darwin in his groundbreaking work the descent of man and selection in relation to sex (1871), sexual selection refers to the evolutionary process by which certain traits increase an individual’s chances of reproducing.
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