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Sexual selection
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Evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 6 facts
claimThe brain's adaptive mechanisms were shaped by natural and sexual selection.
claimSexual selection leads to choosiness in female mammals, which helps them select higher-quality mates, due to their relatively low maximal potential reproduction rate.
perspectiveAdaptationist perspectives suggest that religious beliefs are products of the human brain, with a functional structure that has a genetic foundation and is subject to the effects of natural selection and sexual selection.
claimIn the evolutionary psychology framework, psychological traits and mechanisms are either functional products of natural and sexual selection or non-adaptive by-products of other adaptive traits.
claimSexual selection leads to adaptations in male mammals that help them compete for females, due to their relatively high maximal potential reproduction rate.
claimSexual selection plays a significant role in human evolution because sexual reproduction is the mechanism for propagating genes into future generations.
The Evolution of Transcendence | Evolutionary Psychological Science link.springer.com Jun 1, 2016 3 facts
referenceGeoffrey Miller (1999) proposed that cultural displays are the result of sexual selection.
referenceGeoffrey Miller (2000) proposes that music production and appreciation are sexually selected evolutionary adaptations.
referenceGeoffrey Miller (2000) argued that human music evolved through the process of sexual selection.
A Copernican Approach to Brain Advancement: The Paradigm of ... frontiersin.org Apr 25, 2019 1 fact
claimThe state of criticality, in conjunction with genetic substrates and other factors, can produce evolutionary phenomena including natural selection, sexual selection, altruism, cooperation, and beauty.
Evolutionary Clinical Psychology | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com Apr 22, 2021 1 fact
referenceKruger, D. J., and Nesse, R. M. (2004) analyzed the relationship between sexual selection and the mortality ratio between males and females.
Electroreception, electrogenesis and electric signal evolution pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 1 fact
claimPotential drivers or moderators of electric signal diversity in fishes include abiotic environmental selective forces, biotic selective forces (such as sexual selection, reproductive interference, and eavesdropping predators), non-adaptive drift, and phylogenetic inertia.