Ornaments, weapons and aggressive behaviours may evolve in female animals by mate
choice and intrasexual competition for mating opportunities—the standard forms of sexual …

For sexual selection to act on a given sex, there must exist variation in the reproductive
success of that sex as a result of differential access to mates or fertilisations. The …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 625–634 Abstract Condition is a nearly ubiquitous term in the
behavioural, physiological and evolutionary ecology literature; however, existing definitions …

Research conducted in the last fifteen years has placed in question many of the traditional
conclusions scholars have formed about human female sexuality. Though conventional …

This article looks at the evolution of sex differences in sexuality in human beings and asks
whether evolutionary psychology sometimes exaggerates these differences. According to a …

While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences
can't compare to those of many other animals. For instance, the male garden spider …

In a variety of taxa, male reproductive success is positively related to the expression of costly
traits such as large body size, ornaments, armaments, and aggression. These traits are …

While much research has focused on the evolution of conspicuous male displays,
ornaments and behaviours, less is understood about the evolution of similar traits in …

Throughout the history of psychology, attempting to objectively measure the highly dynamic
phenomenon of human behaviour has given rise to an underappreciated margin of error …