Sentence examples for prefer mates from inspiring English sources

In one class of models, which are termed "open-ended preferences," all individuals are assumed to prefer mates with the most extreme trait values, even though the magnitude of preferences may vary.

Studies done in the past ten years have shown that people prefer mates who have symmetrical faces, associating them with health and fertility, and that the brain computes whether a face is attractive or threatening before processing whom it belongs to.

This treatment made female flies again prefer mates raised on the same food.

People prefer mates within their own age, ethnic, and religious groups (Qian and Lichter 2001) vis-à-vis other groups.

In lab-raised descendents of wild guppies (Poecilia reticulata) females prefer mates with large orange body spots (image).

But a new study in zebra finches reveals that the small, gray-striped birds prefer mates with similar interests, such as a penchant for exploring the world.

The Verhulst death probabilities depend on the phenotype, and so does the mating preference: females prefer mating partners with the largest (smallest) phenotype, if their own phenotype is larger smaller) than average.

Mares are warm-weather lovers: their 21-day cycles of heat come more easily in spring and summer, but breeders prefer mating them in February.

In this month's Animal Behavior, Hughes reports that the opposite is also true: Female guppies prefer mating with novel males as well.

It is not yet clear to what extent a male will prefer mate guarding over extra-pair fertilizations.

Females often seem to prefer mating with faeders to copulation with normal males, and normal males also copulate with faeders (and vice versa) relatively more often than with females.