• Selection in favor of females who choose males increases their offspring's chances of success. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • Female selection theory asserts that most human females, like the females of many other mammals, have developed mating preferences in favor of males adept at providing resources. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • In systems where the offspring do not benefit directly, selection may favor females who choose mates possessing so-called "good genes. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • Men favor mates who are younger and physically attractive. (futurity.org)
  • In Fleshly Date or Godly Mate, Mary uses her personal experiences of the different types of men she dated before marriage and how she had to fight back to gain her self-esteem, value, and had understand the favor she carried. (blacknews.com)
  • All the released beetles were raised in the lab among varying ratios of males and females to replicate their natural upbringing and expose them to the competition they'd be facing out on the dating scene. (upi.com)
  • How does competition influence mate choice decisions for males and females in the monogamous convict cichlid fish, Archocentrus nigrofasciatus? (brill.com)
  • Here, using the monogamous convict cichlid, Archocentrus nigrofasciatus, we examined the mate choice process of males and females in the presence of intrasexual competition. (brill.com)
  • This was done for males and females separately. (brill.com)
  • Afterward, in the laboratory, males and females were separated and then combined into couples for observations of the mating steps. (scielo.br)
  • Many species of squid form large schools of males and females to create a spawning bed (some as large as 200 meters or just over 200 yards). (askmen.com)
  • So those males and females will mate and shed eggs or larva in the environment. (cdc.gov)
  • Detailed investigations into the social and genetic context of multi-male mating in red squirrels and other mammalian species should help to provide insight into the evolution and maintenance of this behavior," said Lane. (upi.com)
  • In many species, larger males take on more mates and are often less committed fathers. (upi.com)
  • Evidence for offspring selection for good genes remains sparse despite decades of research on female mate selection in many species. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • In a dichotomous choice test, large-brained and wild-type females showed strong preference for males with color traits that predict attractiveness in this species. (phys.org)
  • Prior research has shown that California mice are a rare monogamous rodent species-they mate for life. (phys.org)
  • Females in many species assess variation among males' sexual signals when choosing mates. (utexas.edu)
  • In most species, females are the choosy sex which discriminates among competitive males, but there are several examples of reversed roles (see below). (wikipedia.org)
  • It is preferable for an individual to choose a compatible mate of the same species, in order to maintain reproductive success. (wikipedia.org)
  • And across species, these immune fingerprints called major histocompatibility complexes (MHCs) seem to play a role in mate choice, said study author Manfred Milinski, an evolutionary biologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Germany. (livescience.com)
  • It is understood that mate choice, competition, and sex differences produced by sexual selection underlie behavior, but few studies focus on their interactions within a system to understand how they shape behavior. (brill.com)
  • however, there are only a few studies describing their biological aspects, times of occurrence, associations of adults and juveniles with native or cropped plants, as well as their mating behavior. (scielo.br)
  • Thus, this study aimed to assess the mating behavior of Leucothyreus marginaticollis Blanchard, 1843. (scielo.br)
  • He recorded the encounters around the Keppel Islands in the southern Great Barrier Reef and was the first to notice a link between their unusual behavior and mating. (livescience.com)
  • They discovered that when female red squirrels chose a mate to copulate with, genetic relatedness didn't play a factor. (upi.com)
  • Evolutionary biologists have theorized that traits that are accurate and honest indicators of male genetic quality should be used by females when choosing between males based on genes. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • In a model of pervasive sexual selection, there is a genetic correlation between a male trait and a female preference for that trait. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • In the "good gene" scenario, differences between males provide females with information about the genetic qualities of different males that females may inherit. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • This mixed mating will establish a genetic correlation between preference and trait. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • The authors of two influential accounts of the genetic consequences of mate choice consider that animals cannot produce fitter offspring by mating with a fitter than average individual 1,2 . (nature.com)
  • It has been argued that in addition to direct benefits, such as nuptial gifts or an adequate sperm supply, females may gain genetic benefits from mating with different males. (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • Furthermore, I discuss why paternity studies can only explicitly test the genetic incompatibility hypothesis if there are a priori expectations of female-male genome compatibilities. (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • He reasoned that since the bodies of females are more nearly hairless, the loss of fur was due to sexual selection of females at a remote prehistoric time when males had overwhelming selective power, and that it nonetheless affected males due to genetic correlation between the sexes. (wikipedia.org)
  • The large overall difference between men's and women's mate preferences tells us that the sexes must have experienced dramatically different challenges in the mating domain throughout human evolution," says Daniel Conroy-Beam, graduate researchers and lead author of the study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin . (futurity.org)
  • Both sexes spent more time with their mates while attacking and inhibiting the courtship of the other competitor (i.e., the secondary competitor). (brill.com)
  • Only females expressed this time preference in the absence of competition (Santangelo & Itzkowtiz, 2004), but both sexes visited accepted mates more in the presence of competition. (brill.com)
  • I found that males are highly tuned to features of their competitors' calls, exhibiting association biases that roughly paralleled females' mate preferences, thus supporting a dual function of advertisement calls. (utexas.edu)
  • The differences in levels of parental investment create the condition that favours mating biases. (wikipedia.org)
  • EDMONTON, Alberta, June 24 (UPI) -- Canadian and British scientists have found female red squirrels show high levels of multi-male mating, even with genetically related males. (upi.com)
  • In the direct utility model, selection favors genetically predisposed females to choose mates with tangible resources, such as protection from predators. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • Female brain size affects the assessment of male attractiveness during mate choice, Science Advances (2017). (phys.org)
  • Females who choose their mates carefully are less likely to lose their reproductive investment. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • This has shaped human evolution for many years, but reasons why humans choose their mates are not fully understood. (wikipedia.org)
  • These results show that by being choosy about their males, female burying beetles might avoid complicated relationships involving male fights and extra female competitors," lead researcher Paul Hopwood, Exeter ecologist, explained in a press release . (upi.com)
  • For this reason, females tend to be choosy when picking a mate-some males tend to work harder in helping to raise the young than are others. (phys.org)
  • In the majority of systems where mate choice exists, one sex tends to be competitive with their same-sex members and the other sex is choosy (meaning they are selective when it comes to picking individuals to mate with). (wikipedia.org)
  • Since many eggs will not survive, the mating pairs will sometimes continue this process for as long as two weeks while the male half-heartedly complains about the high number of predators eating the eggs. (askmen.com)
  • When male mosquitoes with Wolbachia mate with wild females, their eggs will not hatch. (cdc.gov)
  • While mating is essential, it can be a costly event - females should be pickier about mates than males because mating risks, such as aggression or transmission, can affect adverse effects on the reproductive performance of offspring. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • Researchers found they could predict a person's gender with 92.2 percent accuracy based on mate preferences. (futurity.org)
  • Many want to believe that women and men are identical in their underlying psychology, but the genders differ strikingly in their evolved mate preferences in some domains," says coauthor David Buss, professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. (futurity.org)
  • Of the 19 mate preferences that researchers considered, five varied significantly based on gender: good financial prospects, physical attractiveness, chastity, ambition, and age. (futurity.org)
  • Mate preferences will therefore be a central target and driver of biological evolution. (futurity.org)
  • I then examined consequences of these interactions for females' mate preferences. (utexas.edu)
  • I then tested females' susceptibility to "decoy effects" and demonstrated that mate preferences were similarly reversible by presenting females with an irrelevant third option. (utexas.edu)
  • I found that transitivity in females' preferences broke down among superior signals, suggesting that cyclical competition may play a fundamental role in maintaining signal diversity. (utexas.edu)
  • Females' preferences, in contrast with theoretical assumptions, exhibit substantial context-specificity, often paralleled by males' strategies. (utexas.edu)
  • This is an honest question because as a person who frequently dates all types of women, and if I can take a page out of the movie 'The Last Samurai' I am beset by the ironies of my life (when it comes to dealing with women and their preferences). (debatepolitics.com)
  • When referring top preferences and the subject at hand I am referring mostly to women preferring men being taller. (debatepolitics.com)
  • On one hand there are progressive women who are independent and want society to accept them as autonomous beings who can fend for themselves but on the other hand these same individuals have preferences for taller men because of the 'protective factor. (debatepolitics.com)
  • I hope some women can shed light on this complex issue for me---Yes I understand we all have preferences but if you can see my point it's quite complex to me because the idea of a women desiring someone to be tall for protection while claiming independence means in that one aspect of what they want for themselves seems like they acknowledge an impotence within themselves. (debatepolitics.com)
  • In the affective bias model of mate selection, females initially prefer a trait in males because the female's nervous system reacts to that trait outside of the context of mate selection life. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • The second and third experiments examined how women viewed other, ovulating women in the context of potential mate poaching across the menstrual cycles of both the rival and the observer. (udayton.edu)
  • By selecting a male with a particular trait value, the female obtains the indirect benefit of producing offspring that will be more sexually attractive to females of that preference. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • The team also constructed a special fish tank for the experiment that allowed the females to swim back and forth between two ends where males were held. (phys.org)
  • To the end of the experiment, we could clarify the mating steps of L. marginaticollis in order to assist in further extraction and identification of sexual pheromone. (scielo.br)
  • In an experiment designed to rule out any direct nutritional benefit of multiple matings, I found that polyandrous females that mated with two different males achieved a significantly higher egg-hatching success than monandrous females that mated twice with the same male. (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • The first experiment examined if ovulating women would be more willing to mate poach an attractive man. (udayton.edu)
  • The second experiment finding, which approached significance, was that normally ovulating women were more likely to view rival near peak fertility as more threatening than women on hormonal contraceptives. (udayton.edu)
  • The four major evolutionary models of women's mate selection are the 'direct utility,' 'good genes,' 'transient selection,' and 'sensory bias' models. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • If women's tastes influenced their mating decisions, they should respond more frequently to males who suggest they are financially secure. (tutorialspoint.com)
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  • To find out, the researchers obtained and analyzed the birth records of 584 California mice pairs for information about monogamous pairs as well as pairings between mice who began mating with a replacement after the death of their first mate. (phys.org)
  • We compared sexual preference in guppy female lines selected for divergence in relative brain size, which we have previously shown to have substantial differences in cognitive ability. (phys.org)
  • Males exhibited more differences than females with the addition of competition suggesting that male mate choice patterns are more labile than females. (brill.com)
  • Phys.org)-A team of researchers with members from Sweden and the U.K. has found that female guppies with larger than average brains preferred to mate with males that were more colorful than average compared to smaller brained females. (phys.org)
  • Prior research has shown that guppies with larger brains are smarter than other guppies-in this new effort, the researchers sought to found out if bigger brains also impacted their choice of mates. (phys.org)
  • This arrangement allowed the female to visit males on both sides of the tank and then to choose which she found more desirable by spending more time with them, i.e. swimming in their vicinity for longer periods of time. (phys.org)
  • In comparing how the females behaved in the tank, the researchers found that those with bigger brains showed a strong preference for more colorful males than small-brained females. (phys.org)
  • We have found some promising initial results, and we think this holistic approach will help answer a lot of questions in mating research in the future. (futurity.org)
  • Several women mentioned that they simply found these shoes prettier and generally more attractive than other nurses shoes on the market. (walkjogrun.net)
  • A trio of researchers at Saint Joseph University's Department of Psychology has found that female California mice take longer to mate with a new partner after the loss of their monogamous mate than do males. (phys.org)
  • They also found that males took no longer to re-pair and produce a litter than did males who mated with their original mates. (phys.org)
  • Further investigation of this concept, has found that it is in fact the specific trait of blue and green colour near the eyespot that seems to increase the females likelihood of mating with a specific peacock. (wikipedia.org)
  • The study, published today (Jan. 22) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, found that women preferred wearing perfumes with an odorless substance that mimics unique immune system chemicals secreted through the skin. (livescience.com)
  • For instance, research has found women prefer sweaty T-shirts from men who have MHCs that are not too similar to or not too different from their own. (livescience.com)
  • In a new study, the diver and another researcher analyzed 158 of these interactions with olive sea snakes ( Aipysurus laevis ) over several years in the Great Barrier Reef and found that interactions were more common during the reptiles' mating season. (livescience.com)
  • The series of experiments described here tested this assumption by examining both the mate poaching behaviors and perceptions of ovulating women across the menstrual cycle. (udayton.edu)
  • Controlled mating experiments in the white pine weevil (Pissodes strobi [Peck]) indicated that female weevils either stored sperm or fertilized eggs from one season to the next, and were able to colonize Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis [Bong. (who.int)
  • Although olive sea snakes are venomous, and potentially lethal, to humans, the researchers do not think believe that people are at an increased risk from swimming with the reptiles during their mating season. (livescience.com)
  • Sexual selection is quite different in non-human animals than humans as they feel more of the evolutionary pressures to reproduce and can easily reject a mate. (wikipedia.org)
  • Male and female guppies (Poecilia reticulata). (phys.org)
  • He then addressed the fact that even though that the BRIT Artist of the Year category had eliminated "male" and "female" designations to be more inclusive, no female artists were nominated. (ks95.com)
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  • Possible effects on offspring from parental ethanol (64175) exposure were studied in male and female Sprague-Dawley-rats exposed at levels of 16000 and 10000 parts per million (ppm). (cdc.gov)
  • The male and female worms are very different in size, the male being only a centimeter in length and rarely, if ever, seen, but the female is nearly a meter long when she emerges through the skin of an infected person. (cdc.gov)
  • The researchers suggest the extra cognitive ability not only allowed the females to keep mental images of the males in their brains as they swam back and forth between potential mates, but to size them up and to make a choice. (phys.org)
  • Specifically, two individuals (i.e., the competitors) were presented with a choice of two alternative, visually and tactilely isolated, mates and observed until one competitor (i.e., the primary competitor) spawned with one of the potential mates (i.e., the accepted mate). (brill.com)
  • Competition did not eliminate a searcher's continuous assessment of potential mates, yet it was conducted to a lesser degree. (brill.com)
  • A major challenge is that mate choice often occurs within complex, dynamic social networks such as leks and choruses, scenarios that combine multiple interacting males, multiattribute signals, and the emergence of spatial relationships, all with the potential to influence females' decisions. (utexas.edu)
  • In other words, before an animal engages with a potential mate, they first evaluate various aspects of that mate which are indicative of quality-such as the resources or phenotypes they have-and evaluate whether or not those particular trait(s) are somehow beneficial to them. (wikipedia.org)
  • And now synthetic chemicals that mimic this scent could one day be added to perfumes to lure potential mates, a new study suggests. (livescience.com)
  • The findings could be used to create synthetic perfume chemicals that could broadcast a person's immune signature as a lure for potential mates. (livescience.com)
  • Now, he knows why: It was mating season, and the males thought he was a potential mate. (livescience.com)
  • They frantically search for a female if they lose touch with her. (livescience.com)
  • Males were also significantly more likely than females to approach, and display some mating behaviors toward, the diver, especially during the mating season. (livescience.com)
  • Joseph R. Biden pledged for the first time Sunday to tap a woman as his running mate if he wins the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. (gopusa.com)
  • omg earth must be so strange those days, you know cats are so annoying, male cat is all the time making noise to call female cat attention and stuff, plus there are the fights. (coldplaying.com)
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  • The researchers suggest the difference in time between re-paired females and re-paired males reproducing is likely due to females being choosier in picking a new mate. (phys.org)
  • Back in the 1990s when I reported aboard my first ship as gunnery officer, there were no females at that time in the armory," said Capt. Justin Long, commanding officer, SCSTC SD. (navy.mil)
  • These mechanisms are a part of evolutionary change because they operate in a way that causes the qualities that are desired in a mate to be more frequently passed on to each generation over time. (wikipedia.org)
  • For example, if female peacocks desire mates who have a colourful plumage, then this trait will increase in frequency over time as male peacocks with a colourful plumage will have more reproductive success. (wikipedia.org)
  • At present, there are five sub mechanisms that explain how mate choice has evolved over time. (wikipedia.org)
  • By using a very rare modeling approach, a supergame where the individuals actions change payoffs over time, we show that combinations of reciprocating strategies where males obtain a mating in return for a carried egg can be stable. (lu.se)
  • Mark Eberhard] The female worm takes approximately one year to develop in the human host, during which time it mates, grows from a very small larva to the adult worm, which is basically a large sack full of first stage larvae. (cdc.gov)
  • The positivity rates declined over the study period among those women screening for cervical cancer for the first time, and among those women presenting to antiretroviral therapy (ART) clinics for routine rescreening. (cdc.gov)
  • Males coil around females during courtship, probably to hang on effectively while they get into position to mate," Shine said. (livescience.com)
  • After losing a partner, they need to regain confidence that a new mate will not only survive but will help them raise their next litter. (phys.org)
  • The existing literature strongly suggests that partnered women are wary of ovulating women because they are deemed threatening rivals (Krems, Neel, Neuberg, Puts, & Kenrick, 2016). (udayton.edu)
  • It can take a while before this happens, and a male will often have to fight off rivals as he stalks the female. (askmen.com)
  • I examined the interplay of males' social associations and females' mate choices in tĂșngara frogs (Physalaemus pustulosus), a model system for female mate choice but for whom interactions between male competition and mate choice were unexplored. (utexas.edu)
  • Reformulating Bateman's ideas, Trivers argued that the sex which exhibits less parental investment (not necessarily the male) will have to compete for mating opportunities with the sex that invests more. (wikipedia.org)
  • Most compete with others of the same sex for the best mate to contribute their genome for future generations. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mate choice decisions are central in sexual selection theory aimed to understand how sexual traits evolve and their role in evolutionary diversification. (phys.org)
  • We test the hypothesis that brain size and cognitive ability are important for accurate assessment of partner quality and that variation in brain size and cognitive ability underlies variation in mate choice. (phys.org)
  • Few decisions impact reproduction more than mate choice," Conroy-Beam says. (futurity.org)
  • Despite substantial empirical data demonstrating this, the role of mate choice in the evolutionary elaboration of signals among natural systems is not well understood. (utexas.edu)
  • These studies highlight the inextricable linkage between male competition and female mate choice and the importance of integration when assessing the opportunity for, and potency of, sexual selection via mate choice. (utexas.edu)
  • However if you look at contemporary trends of common female mate selection, you can see the choice of the 'bad boy' (of course this projected image is due to media influence) along with the height preference one could make a strong argument that the patriarchal system in which we live in has indeed influenced a lot of female mate choices. (debatepolitics.com)
  • Other accounts have suggested ways in which mate choice might improve offspring fitness 4 . (nature.com)
  • Data are now presented which show that one component of offspring fitness can be increased by mate choice in Drosophila melanogaster . (nature.com)
  • Mate choice is one of the primary mechanisms under which evolution can occur. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mate choice is a major component of sexual selection, another being intrasexual selection. (wikipedia.org)
  • Other factors that can influence mate choice include pathogen stress and the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). (wikipedia.org)
  • Charles Darwin first expressed his ideas on sexual selection and mate choice in his book The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex in 1871. (wikipedia.org)
  • The confusion over the choice of the authentic running mate to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is deepening as he has returned to Abuja to continue consultations on the contentious issue. (punchng.com)
  • As the deadline draws near, Tinubu, the APC and the Progressive Northern Governors' Forum are said to be in a dilemma over the choice of an acceptable running mate as opposition continues to mount over a possible Muslim-Muslim ticket for the ruling party. (punchng.com)
  • Even so, Gregg acknowledged it's "not unusual" for the eventual nominee to pick a rival as his running mate, noting Ronald Reagan's choice of George H.W. Bush in the 1980 presidential campaign to serve as his vice president. (klfy.com)
  • We selected 91 women in Climacteric and Menopausal phases with high school level and high income to investigate their mate choice. (bvsalud.org)
  • while the Labour Party candidate, peter Obi, settled for a former presidential spokesperson, Dr Doyin Okupe, as his running mate in 'placeholder' capacity. (punchng.com)
  • A former Chairman of the APC in Lagos State, Henry Ajomale, however, said the presidential candidate was set to unveil a Muslim as his running mate next month. (punchng.com)
  • Former President Trump is so far out ahead of the rest of the Republican presidential primary field that some in the GOP see Wednesday's debate in Milwaukee as little more than a showcase for candidates angling to be Trump's running mate. (klfy.com)
  • One Republican strategist aligned with Trump who requested anonymity because he is not authorized to speak for the campaign said Scott, Ramaswamy and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) are enticing presidential running mates because Trump needs to expand his appeal among minority and women voters in the general election, if he indeed wins the nomination. (klfy.com)
  • Moreover, a few females refused to mate with the established male, reinforcing the fact that the pairing of couples occurs after chemical identification among adults. (scielo.br)
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  • Amber Valentino et al, Reproductive success diminished following mate loss for females but not males in a monogamous rodent, Behavioural Processes (2021). (phys.org)
  • In 1948, using Drosophila as a model, Angus John Bateman presented experimental evidence that male reproductive success is limited by the number of mates obtained, while female reproductive success is limited by the number of pregnancies that she can have in her lifetime. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sexual selection is a biological way one sex chooses a mate for the best reproductive success. (wikipedia.org)
  • The fertilized female worm is the one that causes the debilitating symptoms. (medscape.com)
  • About a year after the initial infection, the pregnant female worm looks for exit points from the body, usually through legs or feet, ready to release new larvae. (medscape.com)
  • The mature female worm migrates to the surface of the skin over any part of the body, but most commonly the extremities, where it produces a painful blister that ruptures when it comes in contact with water. (cdc.gov)
  • The female worm herself then ruptures and releases hundreds of thousands of larvae into the water, which is needed to continue the life cycle. (cdc.gov)
  • After the eggs develop, the adult female worm moves to the rectum and exits through the anus to lay eggs. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Even in the event spousal losings is a common transition throughout the females lifetime course, everyone commonly showcase yet another trend out of variations. (micsem.org)
  • The brand new thriving partner will get guilty of all of the opportunities of each and every day lifetime, and those that was previously treated because of the the woman later (or former) spouse. (micsem.org)
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  • Females of the scorpionfly Panorpa cognata mate with several males during their lifetime. (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • Soon, the females pair up and swim together with a partner. (askmen.com)
  • Males can be subject to strong selection for specific traits favored by females. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • Most women consider these traits an indicator of their partner's fitness. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • In contrast, small-brained females showed no preference for males with these traits. (phys.org)
  • Darwin proposed two explanations for the existence of such traits: these traits are useful in male-male combat or they are preferred by females. (wikipedia.org)
  • In males, the benefits of multi-female mating are well established, but in females the benefits of having many offspring is limited, making the reasoning for multi-male mating more puzzling," said Jeffrey Lane, who conducted the study while obtaining his doctoral degree at the University of Alberta. (upi.com)
  • Knowing this, I recall a study I did in undergrad regarding the biopsychological effect of female mate selection between symmetrical and asymmetrical faces. (debatepolitics.com)
  • In addition, the study suggests that "the sense of smell might affect behaviors, and one of those behaviors might be mate selection. (livescience.com)
  • However, in a particularly brutal study for its earwig subjects, scientists determined that the left penis could still impregnate females after the right one was amputated. (askmen.com)
  • I commit that I will in fact pick a woman to be vice president," Mr. Biden said in a debate in Washington with Sen. Bernard Sanders. (gopusa.com)
  • A group of prominent Black male leaders, including several athletes and celebrities, signed a Monday open letter calling on former Vice President Joe Biden to select a Black woman as his running mate. (theweek.com)
  • The letter is quite clear in its intent, stating that choosing one of the several Black women the Biden campaign is considering as vice president is no longer something that "should" happen, but an imperative. (theweek.com)
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  • But because the males can't tell the difference between female snakes and scuba divers, it can lead to some comical interactions, he added. (livescience.com)
  • According to the Sexual Strategies Theory (SST) women choose partners that are older, have higher social status, higher income and qualities of good provider and father. (bvsalud.org)
  • Studies show that even after their reproductive period, in which there's no need for reproduction, women tend to choose long-term relationships. (bvsalud.org)
  • Preferably women have kept fixed relationships than eventual relationships. (bvsalud.org)
  • Because I'm so curious about this preference I tend to ask female co-workers of mine along with female strangers from school (also women I intend to date) as to why they prefer a taller man. (debatepolitics.com)
  • Associated physical, social and psychological cultured imposed consequences were experienced by women in Nigeria. (who.int)
  • Lynch also described behaviors known to occur during the mating season, such as males coiling their bodies around his fins. (livescience.com)
  • Males with more elaborate or colorful decorations may indicate a mate's worth and may have a chance to mate with a particular female. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • There he described a scenario, Fisherian runaway, where feedback between mate preference and a trait results in elaborate characters such as the long tail of the male peacock. (wikipedia.org)
  • A large number of the adults mated, which lasted on average 22.71 min and occurred from 7 to 11 pm. (scielo.br)
  • Female burying beetles prefer males that avoid confrontation. (upi.com)
  • The white soles of the white shoes never scuff floors, and a lot of women prefer the leather material to other manmade materials that often come on nurses shoes. (walkjogrun.net)
  • Two main mechanisms to explain offspring mate selection have been proposed: good genes and the arbitrary Fisherian process. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • In the "good genes" model, as in the "direct interest" models, there is a correspondence between the supposed role of natural selection versus sexual selection since the preference for particular offspring in certain males may allow females to achieve higher survivability and fertility. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • Do women buy into a sense of unconscious inferiority when it comes to mate selection? (debatepolitics.com)
  • Although not explicit, his observation that in Khoisan women "the posterior part of the body projects in a most wonderful manner" (known as steatopygia ) [17] implies sexual selection for this characteristic. (wikipedia.org)