Male mate choice, female competition, and female ornaments as components of sexual selection

作     者：Ingo SCHLUPP 

作者机构：Department of Biology University of Oklahoma Norman OK 73019-0390 USA 

出 版 物：《Current Zoology》 (动物学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2018年第64卷第3期

页      面：321-322页

核心收录：

学科分类：1305[艺术学-设计学（可授艺术学、工学学位）] 0710[理学-生物学] 13[艺术学] 07[理学] 071002[理学-动物学] 

主　　题：配偶选择 装饰品 部件 比赛 装饰特点 达尔文 竞争 不完全 

摘      要：Choosing a mate is likely one of the most influential decisions any individual makes because it heavily influences their fitness. Going back all the way to the seminal work by Darwin （1871, 1859）, we mostly think of females as choosing mates, whereas males compete over mating opportunities with females. This view is very well supported, but somewhat incomplete. As Darwin struggled to find a good explanation for the existence of ornamental traits in males, he proposed Sexual Selection and along with that theory he suggested 2 mechanisms that could lead to and maintain such extreme traits： Female Choice and Male Competition. Historically, male competition was quickly accepted, whereas acceptance of female choice was delayed until much later, coinciding with the rise of modern feminism （Zuk 1993）.