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The 99 pages that link to Sexual selection, each with the reason it gives.

• Sexual dimorphismRelated: Competition for mates and mate choice can favor traits that differ between males and females.

• Charles DarwinBroader topic: Darwin proposed it to explain traits that improve mating success rather than survival.

• EvolutionBroader topic: It can favor traits that improve mating success, even when they reduce survival.

• Animal communicationRelated: Mate-attraction signals can evolve because they improve access to mating opportunities.

• BirdsongNarrower topic: Preferences for song traits can shape their evolution.

• Parental careRelated: Potential care can influence mate choice and competition between parents.

• Sexual reproductionRelated: Competition for mates and mate choice arise from reproduction through gametes.

• Alfred Russel WallaceCompared with: Wallace accepted natural selection but disputed Darwin’s explanation of some ornaments through mate choice.

• Evolutionary psychologyRelated: It offers explanations for psychological differences linked to courtship and competition.

• Parental investmentNarrower topic: Parental investment helps explain why sexual selection differs between the sexes.

• Courtship displayNarrower topic: Explains how mate-attracting and rival-deterring behaviors can evolve.

• AmplexusRelated: Competition and mate choice can shape which males secure and maintain an embrace.

• Behavioral ecologyRelated: It explains behaviors that increase mating success, even when they reduce survival.

• Bird plumageRelated: Plumage ornaments can influence mate choice and competition.

• CeratopsiaRelated: It is one proposed explanation for the diversity and display value of ceratopsian skull ornaments.

• Internal fertilizationRelated: Internal sperm transfer can intensify competition over mates and fertilization.

• Evolutionary game theoryRelated: Competition and mate choice create strategic interactions that shape traits.

• Mate choiceNarrower topic: Mate choice is one route by which differences in mating success shape traits.

• MonogamyRelated: Competition for mates and mate choice can favor or undermine monogamous arrangements.

• Sexual conflictNarrower topic: It shapes mating traits and competition, often setting the conditions for sexual conflict.

• DarwinismBroader topic: Darwin used it to explain traits that improve mating success, even when they hinder survival.

• Mating systemRelated: Differences in mating success help shape the traits and behaviors found in each system.

• PeacockNarrower topic: Mate choice and competition help explain the evolution of the male’s elaborate train.

• SociobiologyRelated: It helps explain courtship, mating competition, and sex differences in behavior.

• PolyandryNarrower topic: Competition among females or males in polyandry reflects sexual selection.

• Sex-role reversalNarrower topic: It supplies the broader evolutionary framework for shifting mating competition.

• AntlerNarrower topic: Antlers can help males compete with rivals and influence access to mates.

• Assortative matingRelated: Mate preferences can produce assortative pairing while also shaping sexual selection.

• SpermatophoreRelated: Differences in spermatophore size and composition can affect reproductive success.

• Cranial ornamentationRelated: Display ornaments may evolve because they affect mate choice or competition.

• Sexual size dimorphismRelated: Mate competition and preference can favor larger bodies in one sex.

• The Descent of ManNarrower topic: Darwin introduced this process to explain traits, such as ornamentation, that natural selection alone seemed unable to explain.

• Brood careRelated: Care can shape mate choice and competition when one sex invests more.

• CentrosaurusRelated: It offers one explanation for the evolution of Centrosaurus's conspicuous skull ornamentation.

• Sexual cannibalismNarrower topic: Cannibalism can shape which traits improve access to mates or reproductive success.

• Bird-of-paradiseNarrower topic: Female mate choice has favored the elaborate ornaments and displays found in many species.

• CichlidRelated: Mate choice and competition help shape cichlid coloration and reproductive diversity.

• HornsRelated: Horn size and display can influence mate choice and competitive outcomes.

• OogamyRelated: Differences between egg and sperm can shape competition and reproductive strategies.

• Parental care in amphibiansRelated: Who provides care can shape mate choice and competition between the sexes.

• Sexual dichromatismNarrower topic: Mate preferences and competition can favor coloration in one sex over the other.

• IguaniaRelated: Displays, colors, and territorial behavior shape reproduction in many iguanian lizards.

• PachycephalosauriaRelated: Display hypotheses propose that elaborate skull shapes helped pachycephalosaurs attract or compete for mates.

• Parental care in fishRelated: Care can shape mate choice and competition over which sex tends offspring.

• Robert TriversNarrower topic: Trivers’s parental-investment theory offered a prominent explanation for sex differences in sexual selection.

• StyracosaurusRelated: It is one proposed explanation for elaborate ceratopsian skull features.

• Wild goatRelated: Competition among males favors body size and horns used in rival contests.

• Animal colorationRelated: Colorful ornaments can affect mate choice, though their costs and benefits vary.

• Evolutionary theoryBroader topic: It accounts for traits favored in competition for mates, even when costly to survival.

• Havelock EllisRelated: Ellis drew on evolutionary ideas when discussing courtship and sexual difference.