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Darwin's Tea Party: Exploring Sexual Selection and Mate Choice in Species

Explore the fascinating world of sexual selection and mate choice in different species, where females play a crucial role in selecting their male partners based on physical and behavioral traits. Discover how non-adaptive features can enhance the chances of male success and learn about the unique strategies used by males to compete for mating opportunities.

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Darwin's Tea Party: Exploring Sexual Selection and Mate Choice in Species

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  1. Darwin’s Tea Party Sexual Selection

  2. Sexual selection is (usually) female choice of male mating partners.

  3. The female selects the male which may often appear to have non-adaptive features.

  4. This is why (unlike most human societies) it is often the male of the species that has wonderful colourings, special “tools,” weapons or other features.

  5. The more exaggerated the feature, the more chance the male will be successful in getting selected by the female.

  6. Males sometimes compete physically for the chance to mate, using their “weapons”

  7. The Bower bird Sexual selection is also about the selection of behaviourial features, not just physical features.

  8. The End

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