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Female Choice

Female Choice is a mechanism of sexual selection in which females exert selective pressure on male traits by preferentially mating with individuals exhibiting specific phenotypic characteristics that enhance offspring fitness or genetic quality.

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The psychology of sex differences

Behavior Therapy · 1975 · 5.5K citations

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Mate selection—A selection for a handicap

Amotz Zahavi · Journal of Theoretical Biology · 1975 · 5.3K citations

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Sexual Strategies Theory: An evolutionary perspective on human mating.

David M. Buss, David P. Schmitt · Psychological Review · 1993 · 4.3K citations

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Intra-sexual selection in Drosophila

A. J. BATEMAN · Heredity · 1948 · 3.7K citations · Full text

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SPERM COMPETITION AND ITS EVOLUTIONARY CONSEQUENCES IN THE INSECTS

George A. Parker · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 1970 · 3.7K citations

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  1. MJ
    Michael J. Ryan

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    104 publications · 11.8K citations

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  2. AP
    Anders Pape Møller

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    71 publications · 7.6K citations

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  3. LW
    Leigh W. Simmons

    The University of Western Australia, Australia

    100 publications · 7.4K citations

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  4. DM
    David M. Buss

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    65 publications · 18.4K citations

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  5. RS
    Richard Shine

    The University of Sydney, Australia

    83 publications · 7.4K citations

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  1. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    102 h-index

    614 publications

    62.6K citations

  2. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    98 h-index

    648 publications

    52.6K citations

  3. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    95 h-index

    654 publications

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  4. Uppsala University

    Uppsala, Sweden

    95 h-index

    552 publications

    51K citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    84 h-index

    1.5K publications

    72.8K citations

  6. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    77 h-index

    432 publications

    35.9K citations

  7. Google (United States)

    Mountain View, United States

    75 h-index

    348 publications

    30.4K citations

  8. University of Sheffield

    Sheffield, United Kingdom

    75 h-index

    373 publications

    29K citations

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  1. Animal Behaviour

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  3. Nature

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  4. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

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