Since Darwin's conception of sexual selection theory, scientists have struggled to identify the
evolutionary forces underlying the pervasive differences between male and female …

For sexual selection to act on a given sex, there must exist variation in the reproductive
success of that sex as a result of differential access to mates or fertilisations. The …

Sexual selection can explain major micro‐and macro‐evolutionary patterns. Much of current
theory predicts that the strength of sexual selection (i) is driven by the relative abundance of …

Healthy males are likely to have higher mating success than unhealthy males because of
differential expression of condition-dependent traits such as mate searching intensity …

What explains variation in the strength of sexual selection across species, populations or
differences between the sexes? Here, we show that unifying two well‐known lines of …

Bateman's classic paper on fly mating systems inspired quantitative study of sexual selection
but also resulted in much debate and confusion. Here, I consider the meaning of Bateman's …

Research into the evolution of giant sperm has uncovered a paradox within the foundations
of sexual selection theory. Postcopulatory sexual selection on males (that is, sperm …

Demographic stochasticity has a substantial influence on the growth of small populations
and consequently on their extinction risk. Mating system is one of several population …

ABSTRACT The Darwin–Bateman paradigm predicts that females enhance their fitness by
being choosy and mating with high‐quality males, while males should compete to mate with …

Despite numerous indices proposed to predict the evolution of mating systems, a unified
measure of sexual selection has remained elusive. Three previous studies have compared …