Chase-Away Sexual Selection: Antagonistic Seduction Versus Resistance

sparklyteenvampire · 2012-01-02T03:26:29+00:00

Can somebody provide a tl;dr here?

PLplotsOTS · 2012-01-02T21:19:30+00:00

TL;DR: Females are constantly choosing new traits to be attracted to, while males constantly try to keep up with developing these traits. Males get stuck carrying lots of "baggage" that is no longer attractive.

How it works: Let's say in a population of birds, males have small feathers. Females wish that males had big feathers. Males that by chance are born with bigger feathers have better success mating. This causes females to reproduce sub-optimally, since they're sacrificing other standards by prioritizing big feathers. To make up for this, it takes bigger and bigger feathers to attract females. Eventually feather size just doesn't matter to females anymore, and some new characteristic attracts them instead. However, now many males are stuck with big feathers, anyway.

males will evolve to be a mosaic of newer (more effective) and older (less effective) display traits

Many factors limit the relevance of this article to our lives. It's from the mid-90s, and the researchers caution that this is just one unproven model of many. It only deals with physical traits, not behavioral. It only deals with animals, not humans. And the model operates across generations, but how it applies to short-term trends (within one individual's lifetime) is not discussed.

Take it with a grain of salt.

2012-01-02T08:52:06+00:00

TLDR PLZZZ?????

Title	Chase-Away Sexual Selection: Antagonistic Seduction Versus Resistance
Author	TokyoPickup
Upvotes	9
Comments	5
Date	January 2, 2012 1:41 AM UTC (14 years ago)
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