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Sexual selection protects against extinction.
Nature - 25 Jun 2015
Lumley Alyson J, Michalczyk Łukasz, Kitson James J N, Spurgin Lewis G, Morrison Catriona A, Godwin Joanne L, Dickinson Matthew E, Martin Oliver Y, Emerson Brent C, Chapman Tracey, Gage Matthew J G
Abstract excerpt
Reproduction through sex carries substantial costs, mainly because only half of sexual adults produce offspring. It has been theorized that these costs could be countered if sex allows sexual selection to clear the universal fitness constraint of mutation load. Under sexual selection, competition between (usually) males and mate choice by (usually) females create important intraspecific filters for reproductive...
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