Sexual Selection as a Determin

If you were a male would you rather have a beautiful, impressive, long tail that attracts a lot of women or would you rather have a shorter, less attractive tail that enables you to escape from predators more easily? Living out in the wild among many potential predators, a shorter tail would seem more logical since it would be a more useful trait than a good-looking one. Though the most logical choice, it is not …showed first 75 words of 961 total…

…showed last 75 words of 961 total…are most likely to get more mates. If the females can hear a certain frog’s calls over all the others, so can predators. This makes them more susceptible to predation. Females are a scarce resource for which males compete. For this reason, many aspects of male courtship can be understood by this competition. It can also help account for the seemingly burdensome traits that evolve in many species through this process of sexual selection