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

• Irish elkRelated: It is one proposed evolutionary explanation for the enlargement of male antlers.

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

• Alpine ibexRelated: Large male horns can influence contests and access to mates.

• 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.

• MaleRelated: In some species, male traits evolve through competition for mates or mate choice.

• Golden pheasantRelated: Mate choice helps explain the evolution of the male's conspicuous colors.

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

• Proboscis monkeyRelated: The male’s enlarged nose may function as a signal in competition and mate choice.

• CopulationRelated: Competition and mate choice can influence copulation and its frequency.

• History of evolutionary thoughtBroader topic: Darwin used it to explain traits that natural selection for survival did not readily explain.

• Ocellated turkeyRelated: Its colorful males and courtship displays are commonly interpreted through mate choice.

• PachyrhinosaurusRelated: It is one proposed explanation for elaborate horns, bosses, and frills.

• PloceidaeRelated: In several weavers, male plumage and nest displays influence mate choice.

• TapejaridaeRelated: Sexual display is one proposed explanation for the conspicuous crests of some tapejarids.

• AmargasaurusRelated: Display or mate competition could explain conspicuous spines, but their role is unconfirmed.

• Atlantic canaryRelated: Differences in song and display can shape mating among Atlantic canaries.

• BustardRelated: Elaborate bustard displays and pronounced differences between sexes are shaped by mate choice.

• Common nightingaleRelated: Male song can influence mating success and competition during the breeding season.

• Evolution of sexual reproductionRelated: It helps explain the evolution of courtship, competition, and reproductive differences.

• FrigatebirdRelated: Female choice favors males whose inflated pouches and calls attract mates.

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

• Green pheasantRelated: It offers a framework for investigating the evolution of the male’s conspicuous green plumage.

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

• Japanese rhinoceros beetleRelated: Competition among males helps explain the evolution of conspicuous horns.

• KoelRelated: The male’s repeated, far-carrying calls can function in mate attraction and competition.

• Lady Amherst's pheasantRelated: It helps explain how elaborate male plumage can evolve.

• ManakinRelated: Female mate choice favors display traits that may not improve survival.

• MatingRelated: Competition and mate choice can favor traits that improve mating success.

• New Mexico whiptailCompared with: Female-female courtship-like behavior lets researchers examine mating behaviors without male competition.

• Physical attractivenessRelated: It offers a framework for how preferences and visible traits may co-evolve.

• PupfishRelated: Male coloration and courtship in several pupfish species reflect competition for mates.

• SticklebackRelated: Female choice and male competition influence stickleback courtship and breeding traits.

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

• BurnetiaRelated: It is one proposed explanation for conspicuous skull ornamentation in extinct therapsids.

• CeratogaulusRelated: One proposed explanation for the horns is that they helped individuals compete for mates.

• 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.

• EmpusidaeRelated: Male empusids' wings and flight capacity can shape mate-finding and reproductive behavior.

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

• Hump-winged grigRelated: Female choice and male food gifts help explain the evolution of grig courtship traits.

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

• Oriental garden lizardRelated: Male breeding colors are traits that may affect mate attraction and competition.

• ProlibytheriumRelated: It is one proposed explanation for the animal's striking, potentially sex-differentiated appendages.

• PumpkinseedRelated: Male coloration and nest defense are involved in pumpkinseed courtship and mating.

• ShringasaurusRelated: It is one proposed explanation for conspicuous horns, though their function in Shringasaurus is unknown.

• ThalassodromeusRelated: A display role is one proposed explanation for its exceptionally large crest.

• TragopanRelated: The males' conspicuous ornaments and displays are associated with competition for mates.

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