Assortative mating

D. pumilio are polygynandrous, the kind of polygamy in which a female pair with several males, each of which also pairs with several different females, with both males and females mating with different partners’ multiple times per breeding season. They assume a vent-to vent posture facing away from each other. The whole breeding process takes between 10 and 180 minutes. They may breed throughout the year but only under favorable moist…

Stephanie Okolo BIO 119-001 18 April 2016 How female choice governs sexual selection. Sexual selection is perhaps one of the most intriguing phenomena in the mammalian kingdom. It is the functional relationship between phenotypes and fitness that enables successful genes of parents to be passed down to their progeny. One important mechanism of sexual selection is how we have evolved to have complete autonomy with whom we reproduce with, especially how that choice relies heavily with females.…

Positive assortative mating is described as coming together with someone of similar education levels, social status, and those fundamental box-set requirements to form a mutual way of living. Following the end of World War II, it was a common occurrence for women to seek…

the "genetic lottery" which guarantees that the son or daughter of elite and successful parents will not more likely inherit the talents and abilities of his or her parents. There has always been a degree of genetic selection which involves assortative mating. This means that successful people tend to marry each other to the extent that their success is genetically based and will be passed on to their children for better life opportunities. The genetic lottery is judged and criticized as being…

969). In the late 15th century, a story describing what may have been a severely autistic boy was included in the writings of the German monk, Martin Luther. The description Luther gave of the child was that he “was a soulless mass of flesh possessed by the devil” (“Autism Spectrum, 2008). This child, the well-known feral child Victor of Aveyron, was “found” and showed the same symptoms of what we now call autism. In the 1800s, the term “idiot savant” was used for these children. Almost 100…