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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 368, Issue 1631, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0074
Keywords
social competition; sexual selection; social selection; mating systems; sex roles; dominance status
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- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/G006822/1]
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/G006822/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [NE/G006822/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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During the latter half of the last century, evidence of reproductive competition between males and male selection by females led to the development of a stereotypical view of sex differences that characterized males as competitive and aggressive, and females as passive and choosy, which is currently being revised. Here, we compare social competition and its consequences for selection in males and females and argue that similar selection processes operate in both sexes and that contrasts between the sexes are quantitative rather than qualitative. We suggest that classifications of selection based on distinction between the form of competition or the components of fitness that are involved introduce unnecessary complexities and that the most useful approach in understanding the evolution and distribution of differences and similarities between the sexes is to compare the operation of selection in males and females in different reproductive systems.
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