Sexual selection (Topical Term)

Work cat: 2012025435: Subversive seduction, Darwin, sexual selection, and the Spanish novel: publisher summary (Male-male rivalry and female passive choice, the two principal tenets of Darwinian sexual selection, raise important ethical questions about the subjugation of women. Reading Darwin through the lens of the Spanish realist novel and vice versa)

Cambridge Dictionary of Human Biology and Evolution, 2005 (Sexual selection: Differential ability of individuals of variable genotypes to acquire mates; also, the process by which characters evolve in one sex only, to facilitate reproductive success as the result of competition among members of that sex for access to mating opportunities with the opposite sex, and the subsequent choices by members of that opposite sex among the competitors. A mechanism of evolution suggested by Charles Darwin in 1871)

Darwin, Charles. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex, 1871.