Kuangyi Xu, a current EEB postdoc at UToronto and a former student in my lab, spearheaded this new dissection of the lek paradox. It often doesn't hold! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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When sexual selection through mate choice depletes versus exaggerates genetic variation: Unraveling the lek paradox | PNAS
The evolution of female preferences for male display traits relies on females receiving
indirect benefits from their mate. This requires substantia...
