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Sexual selection and the evolution of male and female cognition: a test using experimental evolution in seed beetles
2019-01-09
Abstract excerpt
“The mating mind hypothesis”, originally aimed at explaining human cognition, holds that the socio-sexual environment shapes cognitive abilities among animals. Similarly, general sexual selection theory predicts that mate competition should benefit individuals carrying “good genes” with beneficial pleiotropic effects on general cognitive ability. However, few experimental studies have evaluated these related hypot...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 544435fb-7af3-5459-857c-c58a789bce99
- DOI
- 10.1101/514711