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Alternative hypotheses linking the immune system and mate choice for good genes

1998-06-22

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Why do males often have extravagant morphological and behavioural traits, and why do females prefer to mate with such males? The answers have been the focus of considerable debate since Darwin's The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex appeared in 1871. Recently the broadening of investigation to include fields outside evolutionary biology has shed new light on mate choice and sexual selection. Here, w...

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Literature Corpus work: c2c407c2-b9f1-5add-b0eb-e3fe0506664e
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1998.0400
PMCID: PMC1689173

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