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Mate selection: Principles and theories
This document discusses several principles and theories of mate selection, including: 1) Bateman's Principle, which found that males can increase reproductive success through multiple matings while females are limited by the number of offspring they can produce; 2) Fisher's Runaway Model, which proposes that female mate preferences evolve for traits that confer survival advantages to offspring, leading to a runaway process of increasingly exaggerated male traits; 3) Fisher's Sexy Son Hypothesis, which suggests females evolve preferences for males with traits that will benefit their sons' reproductive success; 4) Zahavi's Handicap Hypothesis, where extravagant male traits act as honest signals of genetic quality because only high
