Chapter 6 Self Quiz Summary

  Sexual Selection
  1. Darwin outlined a model of selection in many animals as a consequence of the different produced by the two sexes, resulting in and selection.
     
     
  2. Intrasexual selection often occurs when males for females.
     
     
  3. Intersexual selection (or choice ) often occurs when females are choosy about their male mates.
     
     
  4. models of mate choice can be broken down into three classes.
     
     
  5. Mate choice may also be via mechanisms such as Pavlovian conditioning and sexual .
     
     
  6. Cultural transmission may lead to mate - choice behaviors, especially among females.
     
     
  7. Mate choice may also occur by bias when females possess a preexisting neurobiological bias for a novel trait.
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