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So people obviously adopt different strategies for approaching potential mates with high and low desirability.
Therefore, females may be able to continuously choose mates with high, genetically based viability.
For example, if females of some species may prefer complex song, long tails, or both, and males may have one or both of those traits; females choosing mates with high quality plumage may reduce their cost of competition because they are not competing with those who choose males with a complex song.
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And because of cultural factors honed over many centuries, Jews may have historically chosen mates with higher intelligence, risking the possibility of having children with debilitating diseases.
Additional constraints on the mate choices of individuals with higher levels of adiposity may arise because the pool of people who are willing to choose mates with higher levels of adiposity will be smaller (and include a higher proportion of fatter individuals) than the pool of people who are willing to choose relatively lean mates (Speakman et al., 2007).
For example, it has recently been found that in peacocks (Pavo cristatus), females lay more eggs when mated with males with high individual MHC diversity [ 32].
Following that logic, females benefit from mating with high quality males because that male's genes will confer a greater ability to survive on her young, making it more likely to pass her genes to future generations – or he'll stick around and help to raise his progeny.
If the correlation rmfW is large and positive, for example, then females mating with high fitness males can expect on average to have high fitness sons and daughters.
Variation among the males that females mate with does not necessarily indicate that females have different standards of quality, but reflects the fact that yearling females in poor condition may not be able to pay the potential costs associated with mating with high quality males.
Because of the cost of fly parasitism, and because of the higher risk that appears to result from being near high chirp rate song, the evolution of female song preferences in this species may thus be affected not only by the benefits of mating with high chirp rate males, but also by the risk of fly parasitism that results from associating with them.
Several recent studies have revealed male strategic adjustments in the quality of sperm; human males produce ejaculates with faster swimming sperm when exposed to cues of sperm competition [23], and male jungle fowl transfer ejaculates with faster swimming sperm when mated with high quality females [24].
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