The Evolution of Animal Weapons

By D. Emlen. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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In Ecology

1. John A. Byers
2. E. Hebets
3. J. Husak
4. J. Swallow
5. D. Puts
6. J. Podos

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. J. Hunt
2. Lisa L. M. Welling
3. Khytam Dawood
4. J. Swallow
5. John A. Byers
6. E. Hebets
7. J. Husak
8. D. Puts

Citations in the corpus

• Quantifying the strength and form of sexual selection on men's traits (2013, background): “Yet, male contests tend to evolve in terrestrial species, especially where females are social, as in humans (D. J. Emlen, 2008; S. T. Emlen & Oring, 1977; Puts, 2010), and frequent or intense male contests characterize all extant great apes (Plavcan & van Schaik, 1992).”
• Compensatory traits and the evolution of male ornaments (2011, background): “We note that there are cases where the evolution of male and female ornaments are due to selective advantages for both sexes (e.g., Kraaijeveld et al., 2007; Simmons & Emlen, 2008) and that sexual dimorphism can result from gains and losses of male and female ornaments (e.g., Wiens, 2001).”
• Beauty and the beast: mechanisms of sexual selection in humans (2010, background): “Contests are especially intense among arthropods, such as some dung beetles, that compete for mates in the essentially onedimensional environments of burrows or tunnels (Emlen, 2008; Emlen & Philips, 2006).”
• Female mate choice based upon male motor performance (2010, background): “Many male mammals do possess characters that are associated with intrasexual selection, such as weapons (Emlen 2008), large body sizes and pugnacious dispositions, but they do not possess nonutilitarian ornaments that serve female choice.”