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

Darwin developed the theory of sexual selection to account for the evolution of weaponry,
ornamentation and other secondary sexual characters that are commonly more developed …

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

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 …

Many conspicuous ornamental traits in animals are expressed in both males and females.
Despite this, most research has focused on sexually dimorphic ornamentation. Mutual …

Males of many songbird species use song repertoires that contain multiple song types. A
commonly encountered evolutionary explanation for this trait and its recurrent appearance …

Recent theoretical and empirical studies confirm that male mate choice and/or female–
female mate competition can be expressed in the absence of sex-role reversal. Such …

Colourful traits in females are suggested to have evolved and be maintained by sexual
selection. Although several studies have evaluated this idea, support is still equivocal …

Sexual selection arises from competition among individuals for access to mates, resulting in
the evolution of conspicuous sexually selected traits, especially when inter‐sexual …

It is poorly understood whether female morphological and behavioural traits can be used as
'signals'. In particular, experimental tests of the hypothesis that female ornaments reflect …