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We speculate that institutional changes and evolving preferences for various development types explain much of this present-day variation.

In fact, Wilson himself argues that humans have an evolved preference for open savanna.

In fact, there are a range of parameters for which strand displacement can evolve preference for replicase production.

Because only female flowers are optimal sites for larval development, female moths are expected to evolve preference for female flowers, and especially so after mating.

An evolved preference for helping behaviour in mates is predicted to arise when parents need to cooperate to raise offspring successfully.

An evolved preference for other-regarding or helping behaviour in potential mates has been proposed as an additional mechanism by which these behaviours can yield direct fitness benefits in humans.

An evolved preference for other-regarding behaviour in potential mates has been proposed as an additional mechanism by which helping behaviours can yield direct fitness benefits in humans [ 5- 8].

Beyond this coincidental side effect of beer consumption, mosquitoes may have evolved preferences for people who recently consumed beer - possibly due to reduced host defensive behaviours or highly nutritious blood-meals.

In other species in which offspring of older males have lower fitness [e.g. Drosophila 11], [45], we might expect females to evolve preferences for younger males, or at a minimum, to avoid mating with older males.

Females may be able to chose sexual partners with reduced levels of mutagenesis by having evolved preferences for males with signals based on antioxidants such as carotenoids.

On the one hand, if there is high variation in the quality of single males, females are expected to evolve preferences for certain male traits that serve as 'honest signals' for male quality [ 3].