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<p>One hundred years after Darwin considered how sexual selection shapes the behavioral and morphological characteristics of males for acquiring mates, Parker realized that sexual selection continues after mating through sperm competition. Because females often mate with multiple males before producing offspring, selection favors adaptations that allow males to preempt sperm from previous males and to prevent their own sperm from preemption by future males. Since the 1970s, this area of research
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- Author
- Leigh W. Simmons
- Publisher
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2001.
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691207032
- Category
- business
- Subjects
- Science, Technology, Economics
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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