Continual change in mate preferences.

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Secondary sexual characters are highly variable both within and between species. Closely related species often differ markedly in sexual morphology but hardly at all in non-sexual traits. Here we show that Fisher's runaway process of sexual selection is intrinsically unstable and naturally leads to continual change in sexual traits. Runaway leads to semi-stable exaggeration of female preference for a male sexual...

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