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Population density drives the local evolution of a threshold dimorphism.

Nature - 28 Oct 2004

Tomkins Joseph L, Brown Gordon S

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Evolution can favour more than one reproductive tactic among conspecifics of the same sex. Under the conditional evolutionarily stable strategy, individuals adopt the tactic that generates the highest fitness return for their status: large males guard females, whereas small males sneak copulations. Tactics change at the status at which fitness benefits switch from favouring one tactic to favouring the...

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PMID: 15510148
DOI: 10.1038/nature02918

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