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#559 - David Puts - What Use Is The Female Orgasm?
Modern Wisdom
What Are the Primary Mechanisms of Sexual Selection?
When people think about sexual selection, they tend to categorize into different modes or mechanisms. There's contest competition which favors size, strength, aggression, weapons. Sexual coercion is another one that happens across many animal species. If I had to rank mechanisms of sexual selection operating on human males over recent evolutionary history, let's say in the past couple hundred thousand years, I'd say probably contest competition, then mate choice and then sperm competition.
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