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  • the other sex. Sexual selection is a common concept in animal evolution but, with plants, it is often overlooked because many plants are hermaphrodites...
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    Sexual selection is a mechanism of evolution in which members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with (intersexual selection)...
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    mainly through sexual selection. These differences may be subtle or exaggerated and may be subjected to sexual selection and natural selection. The opposite...
    107 KB (12,542 words) - 02:21, 29 December 2024
  • Sexual selection has been observed in fungi as a part of their reproduction, although they also often reproduce asexually. In the basidiomycetes, the...
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    the other sex. Sexual selection is a common concept in animal evolution but, with plants, it is often overlooked because many plants are hermaphrodites...
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  • Plant reproduction is the production of new offspring in plants, which can be accomplished by sexual or asexual reproduction. Sexual reproduction produces...
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    Sex organ (redirect from Sexual organ)
    sexual characteristics, such as patterns of pubic and facial hair and female breasts that emerge at puberty. Because of the strong sexual selection affecting...
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    Sexual reproduction is the most common life cycle in multicellular eukaryotes, such as animals, fungi and plants. Sexual reproduction also occurs in some...
    39 KB (4,831 words) - 09:42, 27 November 2024
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    also be seen in the chase-away sexual selection model, which places inter-sexual conflicts in the context of secondary sexual characteristic evolution, sensory...
    67 KB (8,685 words) - 21:33, 27 August 2024
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    Sex (redirect from Sex in plants)
    embryonic plant. The flowers of flowering plants contain their sexual organs. Most flowering plants are hermaphroditic, with both male and female parts in the...
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    selection is a term used with varying meanings in biology. Joan Roughgarden proposed a hypothesis called social selection as an alternative to sexual...
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    details his theory of sexual selection, a form of biological adaptation distinct from, yet interconnected with, natural selection. Darwin used the word...
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    Evolution (redirect from Mutation-selection)
    such processes are widely recognized: natural selection (in the broad sense, to include sexual selection), genetic drift, mutation, and migration (Fisher...
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    on the same plant. Arisaema triphyllum thus covers a multitude of sexual conditions in its lifetime: nonsexual juvenile plants, young plants that are all...
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  • natural selection and sexual selection, fecundity selection is a fundamental component of the modern theory of Darwinian selection. Fecundity selection is...
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    Sexual selection in Arabidopsis thaliana is a mode of natural selection by which the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana selects mates to maximize reproductive...
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    Unsolved problem in biology: What selection pressures led to the evolution and maintenance of sexual reproduction? (more unsolved problems in biology) Evolution...
    79 KB (9,495 words) - 20:58, 8 December 2024
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    IL: Aldine Publishing Co.]. "Sexual Selection and Natural Selection". In Campbell, Bernard G. (ed.). Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man: The Darwinian...
    108 KB (11,675 words) - 08:16, 7 January 2025
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    Festa-Bianchet, M; Jorgenson, J; Strobeck, C (2002). "Age-Dependent Sexual Selection in Bighorn Rams". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences...
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    of rewards in exchange for sexual favors. Sexual harassment can be physical and/or a demand or request for sexual favors, making sexually colored remarks...
    229 KB (25,448 words) - 03:35, 29 December 2024
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