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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Sexual selection
Message-ID: <4776@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 14:40:57 GMT
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> In article <914@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn) writes:
...
> So dimorphism MAY be a result of direct female choice for big males
> but PROBABLY is more likely a result of the games males play with
> each other.
> 
and if the result of winning in these games increases the chance of acceptance
by a female (i.e., increases the chance of passing on genes to future
generations) then the result is the same.
> Susan Nordmark
--henry schaffer  n c state univ