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Dr. Michael Ryan
January 26, 2001
Sexual Selection
Hot Science - Cool Talk # 10
Title slide
There are many other structures and instincts which must
have been developed through sexual selection- such as
the weapons of offence and the means of defence of the
males for fighting with and driving away their rivals-
their courage and pugnacity- their various ornaments-
their contrivances for production of vocal or
instrumental music- and their glands for emitting odours,
most of these latter structures serving only to allure or
excite the females. - Darwin
Sexual Selection
Dr. Michael J. Ryan
1
Large SD comp.
2
Sexual Dimorphisms
• Quite common in
secondary sexual
characters.
• And usually:
– males are more
elaborate
– traits are costly
– traits are associated
with breeding.
3
Natural Selection versus
Sexual Selection
• Natural Selection: favors those
phenotypes with greater survival ability.
• Sexual Selection: favors those
phenotypes with greater reproductive
success due to greater ability to acquire
mates.
4
Sexual Differences in
Reproductive Strategy
• Females invest more time and
energy per gamete/ offspring.
• Female reproductive success
is influenced by mate quality
and they are coy in their
choice; increased mating
success does not translate
into increased reproductive
success.
• Males increase reproductive
success by increasing the
numbers of females they
mate; males are
undiscriminating with whom
they will mate.
5
Mechanisms of Sexual
Selection
• Male Competition: Males compete directly for
access to females.
• Female Choice: Males advertise for females
and females choose their mates.
• Competition & Choice: Mechanisms can
interact, males can compete for resources
that influence a female’s choice.
• Role Reversal: In some polyandrous mating
system (e.g. pipefish, jacanas) role of sexes
are reversed.
6
Male Competition
• In many species
males evolve organs
used for combat,
such as antlers in
red deer.
7
Male Competition
• In frogs, males often
have more muscular
forearms than females
to aid them in avoiding
displacement from the
females by other males
(Bufo cognatus).
8
Giraffe
9
Male Competition?
• Long neck of giraffe is
usually considered an
adaptation for foraging.
But . . .
• They spend a lot of time
bent over feeding.
• Males fight by clubbing
each other on the top of
the head.
• Males have thicker
skulls than females.
10
Sperm Competition
• Males can also
compete inside the
females if females are
multiply inseminated.
By . . .
– Increase quantity of
sperm.
– Produce sperm toxins.
– Erect mating plugs.
– Have kamikaze sperm.
11
Sexual Selection by
Female Choice
• Darwin proposed that in many species females
chose males based on aesthetic preferences.
• Although sexual selection by male competition
was readily accepted, female choice was an idea
that was rejected and lay dormant for 100 years.
• Might have been rejected because of Victorian
society and had a resurgence coincident with the
feminist movement.
12
Calling tungara frog
13
Sexual Selection for Complex
Calls in Túngara Frogs:
Female Choice
• Males produce a call
with two components, a
whine and a chuck.
• In isolation, males
produce only a whine.
• In a chorus or in
response to tapes of
calls, males add
chucks.
14
Call sounds
15
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Male calls comp.
16
Frog-Eating Bat
17
Sexual Selection for Complex
Calls in Túngara Frogs:
Predation Costs
• Frog-eating bats are
attracted to whines.
• When given a choice
bats prefer whines with
chucks to whines
without chucks.
• Natural selection favors
simple calls, sexual
selection favors
complex calls
18
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The Evolution of
Female Choice
• Direct Benefits: A female’s choice increases her
immediate fecundity and thus evolves as the target of
selection.
• Good Genes: Female choice increased the genetic
quality of its offspring for survival.
• Runaway Sexual Selection: The preference
increases in frequency because it becomes linked to
’sexy son’ traits.
• Sensory Exploitation: Some aspect of the female
preference is a pleiotropic effect, and a preexisting
bias for certain male traits.
19
• Direct Benefits: A female’s choice increases her
immediate fecundity and thus evolves as the target of
selection.
• Good Genes: Female choice increased the genetic
quality of its offspring for survival.
• Runaway Sexual Selection: The preference
increases in frequency because it becomes linked to
‘sexy son’ traits.
• Sensory Exploitation: Some aspect of the female
preference is a pleiotropic effect, and a preexisting
bias for certain male traits.
20
The Evolution of
Female Choice
Resources
• Male scorpionflies
present females with
a nuptial gift prior to
mating.
21
Resources
• Male katydids
package sperm in a
nutritious ejaculate
which the females
eat after mating.
22
Resources
• Male hornbills
plaster females into
a nest and deliver
food through a small
opening while the
female incubated
the eggs.
23
Barbie
24
WHR
25
Preference for Waist:
Hip Ratio
• Holding body mass
constant, men prefer
line drawings of women
in which the waist
measurement is 70%
that of the hip (waist:hip
= 0.70).
• Some suggestion that
women with this ratio
might be more healthy
and fecund.
26
Barbie’s Ratio
• If Barbie was a
person her
measurements
would be: 39:23:33
• and . . . “she would
have to walk on all
fours”
• her waist to hip ratio
is 0.70.
27
Grouse close-up
28
The Paradox of the Lek
• In many species (birds,
frogs, fish, insects)
males gather at leks to
advertise for females.
• Females choose males
but receive only sperm
from males.
• If all males can fertilize
eggs, why choose?
29
The Evolution of
Female Choice
• Direct Benefits: A female’s choice increases her
immediate fecundity and thus evolves as the target of
selection.
• Good Genes: Female choice increased the genetic
quality of its offspring for survival.
• Runaway Sexual Selection: The preference
increases in frequency because it becomes linked to
’sexy son’ traits.
• Sensory Exploitation: Some aspect of the female
preference is a pleiotropic effect, and a preexisting
bias for certain male traits.
30
Peacock
31
Good Genes in Peacocks
• Females prefer males
with larger eye spots.
• Females are paired
randomly with males.
• Researchers raise
incubate eggs and raise
offspring.
• Young are released into
wildlife park.
• Survivorship is
measured.
32
Parasites and Bright Color
33
Dichromatism Score
34
The Evolution of
Female Choice
• Direct Benefits: A female’s choice increases her
immediate fecundity and thus evolves as the target of
selection.
• Good Genes: Female choice increased the genetic
quality of its offspring for survival.
• Runaway Sexual Selection: The preference
increases in frequency because it becomes linked to
‘sexy son’ traits.
• Sensory Exploitation: Some aspect of the female
preference is a pleiotropic effect, and a preexisting
bias for certain male traits.
35
The Sexy Son Hypothesis
• There is genetic variation for male trait and
female preference.
• Both sexes possess both genes but only
express the one relevant to their sex.
• Trait alleles increase in the population
because they are preferred.
• Preference alleles increase because they are
linked with trait genes and ‘hitchhike’.
36
Stalk Eyed Flies
• Males have greater
eye spans than
females.
• Males defend root
hairs, and the harem
of females that
collect on them.
37
Eye Span and Mating
Success
• Males with greater
eye spans have
more females.
38
Initial Generation/Males Selected
2nd Generation
39
Correlated Response in
Artificial Selection Experiments
• Experimenter artificially
selects lines for small eye
span, large eye span, and
no selection (control).
• Female preference in
selected lines is then
measured.
• Females evolve
preference for smaller eye
span in that line,
preference for larger eye
span appears at a
maximum.
1.5
-1.5
Females
with
L - S males
Eye Span Selection Line
control long short
control
0
40
The Evolution of
Female Choice
• Direct Benefits: A female’s choice increases her
immediate fecundity and thus evolves as the target of
selection.
• Good Genes: Female choice increased the genetic
quality of its offspring for survival.
• Runaway Sexual Selection: The preference
increases in frequency because it becomes linked to
’sexy son’ traits.
• Sensory Exploitation: Some aspect of the female
preference is a pleiotropic effect, and a preexisting
bias for certain male traits.
41
New Yorker Cartoon
42
Patterns of Trait-Preference
Evolution
43
Male/female preference
44
Tungara frogs
P. caicai
P. coloradorum
P. enesefae
P. ephippifer
P. petersi
P. pustulatus
P. ‘roraima’
P. pustulosus
45
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46
Outgroup/Amazon/West Andes
47
Physalaemus coloradorum
1. This is Physalaemus coloradorum. The live on the western side of the Andes near
Quito Ecuador. Their males don’t make chucks.
48
Tungara call with 3 chucks
49
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Con + chucks
50
Ornaments
51
Bird Song
52
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Dancing baby
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Attention/Movement/Melody
54
Sensory Biases for Music?
• “Naïve” infants show
preferences for
consonant sounds
versus disonant
sounds.
• This might be due to
inherent properties
of auditory system
structure rather than
cultural effects.
55
Music into synapse
56
SWF/SWM
BEAUTIFUL, LONG
LEGGED, green eyed,
golden haired, SWF,
5'7", 122. Seeking tall
handsome, fit, SWM,
drug/disease free,
height/weight
proportionate, 40-52.
Must be financially and
emotionally secure
MATURE, SINCERE
GENTLEMAN seeks
non-smoking, attractive,
vivacious, slim, busty,
athletically inclined, 27-
42 year old female
positively interested in
mutual long-term
involvement, hopefully
college educated.
57
Dr. Michael Ryan
Michael Ryan, the Clark Hubbs Regents Professor of Zoology, began his
career at The University of Texas at Austin in 1984. He came to UT from a
post-doctoral Miller Fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley
and received his Ph.D. in Neurobiology and Behavior
from Cornell University. Since that time, Dr. Ryan has established himself
as a leading expert in the evolution and mechanisms of animal behavior,
with particular emphasis on communication and sexual selection. To date,
he has written a book on communication in tungara frogs, is the editor of
two more books on frog communication, and has over 140 publications in
journals including Science, Nature, and the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences. Dr. Ryan is very actively involved with the
Zoology/Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior graduate program, having
served as its faculty advisor from 1993 to 1998 Courses he has taught
range from graduate seminars in Human Language and Animal
Communication to a non-major course in Ecology, Evolution and Society.
Dr. Ryan has been invited to deliver guest lectures worldwide on the topics
of animal behavior.

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  • 1. Produced by and for Hot Science - Cool Talks by the Environmental Science Institute. We request that the use of these materials include an acknowledgement of the presenter and Hot Science - Cool Talks by the Environmental Science Institute at UT Austin. We hope you find these materials educational and enjoyable. Dr. Michael Ryan January 26, 2001 Sexual Selection Hot Science - Cool Talk # 10
  • 2. Title slide There are many other structures and instincts which must have been developed through sexual selection- such as the weapons of offence and the means of defence of the males for fighting with and driving away their rivals- their courage and pugnacity- their various ornaments- their contrivances for production of vocal or instrumental music- and their glands for emitting odours, most of these latter structures serving only to allure or excite the females. - Darwin Sexual Selection Dr. Michael J. Ryan 1
  • 4. Sexual Dimorphisms • Quite common in secondary sexual characters. • And usually: – males are more elaborate – traits are costly – traits are associated with breeding. 3
  • 5. Natural Selection versus Sexual Selection • Natural Selection: favors those phenotypes with greater survival ability. • Sexual Selection: favors those phenotypes with greater reproductive success due to greater ability to acquire mates. 4
  • 6. Sexual Differences in Reproductive Strategy • Females invest more time and energy per gamete/ offspring. • Female reproductive success is influenced by mate quality and they are coy in their choice; increased mating success does not translate into increased reproductive success. • Males increase reproductive success by increasing the numbers of females they mate; males are undiscriminating with whom they will mate. 5
  • 7. Mechanisms of Sexual Selection • Male Competition: Males compete directly for access to females. • Female Choice: Males advertise for females and females choose their mates. • Competition & Choice: Mechanisms can interact, males can compete for resources that influence a female’s choice. • Role Reversal: In some polyandrous mating system (e.g. pipefish, jacanas) role of sexes are reversed. 6
  • 8. Male Competition • In many species males evolve organs used for combat, such as antlers in red deer. 7
  • 9. Male Competition • In frogs, males often have more muscular forearms than females to aid them in avoiding displacement from the females by other males (Bufo cognatus). 8
  • 11. Male Competition? • Long neck of giraffe is usually considered an adaptation for foraging. But . . . • They spend a lot of time bent over feeding. • Males fight by clubbing each other on the top of the head. • Males have thicker skulls than females. 10
  • 12. Sperm Competition • Males can also compete inside the females if females are multiply inseminated. By . . . – Increase quantity of sperm. – Produce sperm toxins. – Erect mating plugs. – Have kamikaze sperm. 11
  • 13. Sexual Selection by Female Choice • Darwin proposed that in many species females chose males based on aesthetic preferences. • Although sexual selection by male competition was readily accepted, female choice was an idea that was rejected and lay dormant for 100 years. • Might have been rejected because of Victorian society and had a resurgence coincident with the feminist movement. 12
  • 15. Sexual Selection for Complex Calls in Túngara Frogs: Female Choice • Males produce a call with two components, a whine and a chuck. • In isolation, males produce only a whine. • In a chorus or in response to tapes of calls, males add chucks. 14
  • 16. Call sounds 15 Sound for PC Double click here Sound for PC Double click here Sound for PC Double click here Sound for PC Double click here Sound for Mac: click once with cursor on sections of graph The sound files do not play in adobe acrobat: 15_1whine.wav, 15_2whine.wav, 15_3whine.wav, 15_4whine.wav can be found in the image directory. A warning may come up about viruses. Just click OK.
  • 19. Sexual Selection for Complex Calls in Túngara Frogs: Predation Costs • Frog-eating bats are attracted to whines. • When given a choice bats prefer whines with chucks to whines without chucks. • Natural selection favors simple calls, sexual selection favors complex calls 18 Movie for PC: Double click here Movie for Mac: click once with cursor on image The movie file does not play in adobe acrobat: 18batfrog.mov can be found in the image directory A warning may come up about viruses. Just click OK. QuickTime™ and a Sorenson Video decompressor are needed to see this picture.
  • 20. The Evolution of Female Choice • Direct Benefits: A female’s choice increases her immediate fecundity and thus evolves as the target of selection. • Good Genes: Female choice increased the genetic quality of its offspring for survival. • Runaway Sexual Selection: The preference increases in frequency because it becomes linked to ’sexy son’ traits. • Sensory Exploitation: Some aspect of the female preference is a pleiotropic effect, and a preexisting bias for certain male traits. 19
  • 21. • Direct Benefits: A female’s choice increases her immediate fecundity and thus evolves as the target of selection. • Good Genes: Female choice increased the genetic quality of its offspring for survival. • Runaway Sexual Selection: The preference increases in frequency because it becomes linked to ‘sexy son’ traits. • Sensory Exploitation: Some aspect of the female preference is a pleiotropic effect, and a preexisting bias for certain male traits. 20 The Evolution of Female Choice
  • 22. Resources • Male scorpionflies present females with a nuptial gift prior to mating. 21
  • 23. Resources • Male katydids package sperm in a nutritious ejaculate which the females eat after mating. 22
  • 24. Resources • Male hornbills plaster females into a nest and deliver food through a small opening while the female incubated the eggs. 23
  • 27. Preference for Waist: Hip Ratio • Holding body mass constant, men prefer line drawings of women in which the waist measurement is 70% that of the hip (waist:hip = 0.70). • Some suggestion that women with this ratio might be more healthy and fecund. 26
  • 28. Barbie’s Ratio • If Barbie was a person her measurements would be: 39:23:33 • and . . . “she would have to walk on all fours” • her waist to hip ratio is 0.70. 27
  • 30. The Paradox of the Lek • In many species (birds, frogs, fish, insects) males gather at leks to advertise for females. • Females choose males but receive only sperm from males. • If all males can fertilize eggs, why choose? 29
  • 31. The Evolution of Female Choice • Direct Benefits: A female’s choice increases her immediate fecundity and thus evolves as the target of selection. • Good Genes: Female choice increased the genetic quality of its offspring for survival. • Runaway Sexual Selection: The preference increases in frequency because it becomes linked to ’sexy son’ traits. • Sensory Exploitation: Some aspect of the female preference is a pleiotropic effect, and a preexisting bias for certain male traits. 30
  • 33. Good Genes in Peacocks • Females prefer males with larger eye spots. • Females are paired randomly with males. • Researchers raise incubate eggs and raise offspring. • Young are released into wildlife park. • Survivorship is measured. 32
  • 36. The Evolution of Female Choice • Direct Benefits: A female’s choice increases her immediate fecundity and thus evolves as the target of selection. • Good Genes: Female choice increased the genetic quality of its offspring for survival. • Runaway Sexual Selection: The preference increases in frequency because it becomes linked to ‘sexy son’ traits. • Sensory Exploitation: Some aspect of the female preference is a pleiotropic effect, and a preexisting bias for certain male traits. 35
  • 37. The Sexy Son Hypothesis • There is genetic variation for male trait and female preference. • Both sexes possess both genes but only express the one relevant to their sex. • Trait alleles increase in the population because they are preferred. • Preference alleles increase because they are linked with trait genes and ‘hitchhike’. 36
  • 38. Stalk Eyed Flies • Males have greater eye spans than females. • Males defend root hairs, and the harem of females that collect on them. 37
  • 39. Eye Span and Mating Success • Males with greater eye spans have more females. 38
  • 41. Correlated Response in Artificial Selection Experiments • Experimenter artificially selects lines for small eye span, large eye span, and no selection (control). • Female preference in selected lines is then measured. • Females evolve preference for smaller eye span in that line, preference for larger eye span appears at a maximum. 1.5 -1.5 Females with L - S males Eye Span Selection Line control long short control 0 40
  • 42. The Evolution of Female Choice • Direct Benefits: A female’s choice increases her immediate fecundity and thus evolves as the target of selection. • Good Genes: Female choice increased the genetic quality of its offspring for survival. • Runaway Sexual Selection: The preference increases in frequency because it becomes linked to ’sexy son’ traits. • Sensory Exploitation: Some aspect of the female preference is a pleiotropic effect, and a preexisting bias for certain male traits. 41
  • 46. Tungara frogs P. caicai P. coloradorum P. enesefae P. ephippifer P. petersi P. pustulatus P. ‘roraima’ P. pustulosus 45 Sound for PC: Double click here Sound for Mac: click once with cursor on speaker The sound file does not play in adobe acrobat: 45_2frogcalls.wav can be found in the image directory
  • 49. Physalaemus coloradorum 1. This is Physalaemus coloradorum. The live on the western side of the Andes near Quito Ecuador. Their males don’t make chucks. 48
  • 50. Tungara call with 3 chucks 49 Sound for PC: Double click here Sound for Mac: click once with cursor on each speaker The sound files do not play in adobe acrobat: 49_2whine.wav, 49_3 call.wav, 49_4call.wav can be found in the image directory Sound for PC: Double click here Sound for PC: Double click here
  • 53. Bird Song 52 Sound for PC: Double click here Sound for Mac: click once with cursor on the speaker The sound file does not play in adobe acrobat: 52song.wav can be found in the image directory
  • 54. Dancing baby 53 Movie for Mac: click once with cursor on image The movie file does not play in adobe acrobat: 53oogachaka.avi or 53oogachaka.mov can be found in the image directory Movie for PC: Double click here A warning may come up about viruses. Just click OK.
  • 56. Sensory Biases for Music? • “Naïve” infants show preferences for consonant sounds versus disonant sounds. • This might be due to inherent properties of auditory system structure rather than cultural effects. 55
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  • 59. Dr. Michael Ryan Michael Ryan, the Clark Hubbs Regents Professor of Zoology, began his career at The University of Texas at Austin in 1984. He came to UT from a post-doctoral Miller Fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley and received his Ph.D. in Neurobiology and Behavior from Cornell University. Since that time, Dr. Ryan has established himself as a leading expert in the evolution and mechanisms of animal behavior, with particular emphasis on communication and sexual selection. To date, he has written a book on communication in tungara frogs, is the editor of two more books on frog communication, and has over 140 publications in journals including Science, Nature, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Ryan is very actively involved with the Zoology/Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior graduate program, having served as its faculty advisor from 1993 to 1998 Courses he has taught range from graduate seminars in Human Language and Animal Communication to a non-major course in Ecology, Evolution and Society. Dr. Ryan has been invited to deliver guest lectures worldwide on the topics of animal behavior.