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

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

• 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.

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

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

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

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

• PolygynyNarrower topic: Polygyny can intensify competition over mates and contribute to unequal reproductive success.

• BowerbirdNarrower topic: Female preferences for displays can favor elaborate bower-building traits.

• Fiddler crabNarrower topic: Female responses to claw displays can favor larger or more effective signals.

• PeafowlNarrower topic: Mate choice helps account for the evolution of elaborate male ornaments.

• Giraffe weevilNarrower topic: Male neck length is associated with contests that influence mating access.

• Hercules beetleNarrower topic: Male contests over mates favor traits such as large horns.

• Animal sexual behaviourNarrower topic: Explains how mating preferences and competition can shape sexual traits and behavior.

• Cock-of-the-rockNarrower topic: Female choice and competition among displaying males can favor conspicuous traits.

• Comb and wattlesNarrower topic: Comb size and appearance can influence mate choice and competition among chickens.

• Greater painted-snipeNarrower topic: Female competition and conspicuous coloration arise through selection for mating opportunities.

• Lesser floricanNarrower topic: Helps explain the elaborate leaps and conspicuous feathers of displaying males.

• Wrestling halfbeakNarrower topic: Differences in success during male contests can shape reproductive competition.