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Mating systems
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The way animals find mates and care for offspring
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Strategy
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Term used to describe certain aspects of the behavior of animals.
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Parent-offspring conflict
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A fundamental asymmetry in the genetic interests of mothers and their offspring
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Sexual selection
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Characteristics that increase male success in competition for mates
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Intrasexual selection
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Females cannot choose mates. Access to females is determined by competition among males. Traits that enhance success in male-male competition favored
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Intersexual selection
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Females can choose mates. Traits that make males more attractive to females are favored.
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Estrus
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The period of a female's reproductive cycle when fertilization is possible
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Sexual selection infanticide hypothesis
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SEE PP. 187-188 FOR GOOD DESCRIPTION
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Mating effort
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Past male care for a female's infants increases male selection if females have a choice in mates
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