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Robert C. Brooks

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Quantifying male attractiveness

2003

Genetic models of sexual selection are concerned with a dynamic process in which female preference and male trait values coevolve. We present a rigorous method for characterizing evolutionary endpoints of this process in phenotypic terms. In our phenotypic characterization the mate-choice strategy of female population members determines how attractive females should find each male, and a population is evolutionarily stable if population members are actually behaving in this way. This provides a justification of phenotypic explanations of sexual selection and the insights into sexual selection that they provide. Furthermore, the phenotypic approach also has enormous advantages over a genetic…

MalePopulationBiologyGeneral Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular BiologyEvolutionarily stable strategySexual Behavior AnimalGenetic modelAnimalsComputer SimulationSelection GeneticeducationGeneral Environmental Scienceeducation.field_of_studyModels GeneticGeneral Immunology and MicrobiologyInheritance (genetic algorithm)General MedicineBiological EvolutionPreferenceGenetic architecturePhenotypeMate choiceEvolutionary biologySexual selectionFemaleGeneral Agricultural and Biological SciencesResearch ArticleProceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
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Effects of gender inequality and wealth inequality on within-sex mating competition under hypergyny

2022

Resources are often central to the formation and persistence of human consortships, and to the evolutionary fitness consequences of those consortships. As a result, the distribution of resources within a society should influence the number and quality of mating opportunities an individual of given status/wealth experiences. In particular, in a wide variety of societies, both contemporary and historic, women have been shown to prefer mates of higher rather than lower status and wealth, a pattern known as ‘hypergyny’. Such status-dependent within-sex competition is influenced not only by the preferences individuals express but also by the distribution of resources within and between sexes. Em…

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Debating Sexual Selection and Mating Strategies

2006

Published at full length with the title 'Reproductive behaviour: sexual selection remains the best explanation' in Science E-letters, 6 April 2006

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Effects of gender inequality and wealth inequality on within-sex mating competition under hypergyny

2022

Documentation of code used for MS: "Effects of gender inequality and wealth inequality on within-sex mating competition under hypergyny", published in Evolution and Human Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.08.006 1. Overview The code provided is Matlab code. The function 'iteratedmatching.m' contains the main code for the simulation. When contained in the same folder (along with its sub-functions 'pickcandidates.m' and 'vectperm.m'), this code can be called from the scripts Figure_1.m, Figure_2.m etc. to produce the figures. 2. File list __________ Title: Main code File name: iteratedmatching.m Description: Main code for running simulations of iterative partner matching T…

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