Article
Evolution of sexual preferences in quantitative characters.
Theoretical population biology - 1 Dec 1990
Karlin S, Raper J
Abstract excerpt
An analysis of equilibria and dynamics of the means, variances, and covariances of female mating preference for a quantitative male secondary sexual character following a Gaussian model is presented. For many combinations of viability and sexual selection parameters the evolving Gaussian distribution of phenotypes can diverge. The results on the cases of convergence and their limiting forms suggest some...
Topics
- Biological Evolution
- Female
- Genetics, Population
- Humans
- Male
- Models, Theoretical
- Phenotype
- Selection, Genetic
- Sex