Sexual Selection
Sexual Selection
Animals compete with other individuals of their own sex for potential mates.
Learning Objective: Explain how animals may compete with other member of their sex within their species.
Natural selection indicates the survival of the fittest individuals within a species. Sexual selection is a more specific aspect of natural selection: individuals competing for success against individuals of the same sex within the species. For example, these male bucks are potentially competing with each other for available territory and mates.
This video introduces examples of sexual selection.
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