The Relationship between Bower Orientation, Platform Choice and Mating Success in the Great Bowerbird Chlamydera nuchalis nuchalis

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Kazuhiro Eguchi ◽  
Yoko Katsuno ◽  
Richard A Noske
Keyword(s):  
Mating Success ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Preprint: Kordsmeyer & Penke, "The association of three indicators of developmental instability with mating success in humans"

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Kordsmeyer ◽  
Lars Penke
Keyword(s):  
Mating Success ◽  
Developmental Instability ◽  
Sexual Partners ◽  
Negative Association ◽  
Equivalence Testing ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Perfect Symmetry ◽  
Minor Physical Anomalies ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Evolutionary Fitness

Developmental instability (DI) has been proposed to relate negatively to aspects of evolutionary fitness, like mating success. One suggested indicator is fluctuating asymmetry (FA), random deviations from perfect symmetry in bilateral bodily traits. A meta-analytically robust negative association between FA and number of lifetime sexual partners has been previously shown in men and women. We examined the relationship between bodily FA across twelve traits and indicators of quantitative mating success in 284 individuals (141 males, age 19-30 years). Two further indicators of DI, minor physical anomalies (MPAs) and asymmetry in palmar atd angles, were also assessed. For men, no significant associations were detected, whereas for women, unexpected positive relationships of FA with the number of lifetime sexual partners and one-night stands emerged. Thus, in a large sample and using a more highly aggregated FA index, our study fails to replicate previous findings, though equivalence testing also did not support deviation from previous meta-analytic estimates, especially for men. No associations were found for MPAs and FA in atd angles in either sex.

Personality and predictability in fallow deer fighting behaviour: the relationship with mating success

2013 ◽  
Vol 86 (5) ◽  
pp. 1041-1047 ◽  
Author(s):  
Domhnall J. Jennings ◽  
Thomas J. Hayden ◽  
Martin P. Gammell
Keyword(s):  
Mating Success ◽  
Fallow Deer ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Fighting Behaviour

scholarly journals The relationship between health and mating success in humans

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 160603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Zhi Foo ◽  
Leigh W. Simmons ◽  
Gillian  Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Sexual Behaviour ◽  
Mating Success ◽  
Semen Quality ◽  
Physiological Measures ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Physiological Indicators ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Healthy Humans ◽  
The Relationship

Health has been claimed to play an important role in human sexual selection, especially in terms of mate choice. Our preferences for attractive individuals are said to represent evolved adaptations for finding high-quality, healthy mates. If this is true, then we expect health to predict mating success in humans. We tested this hypothesis using several important physiological indicators of health, including immune function, oxidative stress and semen quality, and self-reported measures of sexual behaviour that contribute to mating success. In contrast to our hypothesis, we did not find a relationship between the physiological measures of health and sexual behaviour. Our results provide little support for claims that health, at least the health measures we used, increases mating success in relatively healthy humans.

The relationship between hypothesized psychological genetic fitness indicators and indices of mating success.

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Camargo ◽  
Glenn Geher ◽  
Maryanne L. Fisher ◽  
Andrew Arrabaca
Keyword(s):  
Mating Success ◽  
Fitness Indicators ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Genetic Fitness

The Relationship Between Carotenoid-Based Coloration and Pairing, Within- and Extra-Pair Mating Success in the American Redstart

The Condor ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 111 (4) ◽  
pp. 684-693 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Kappes ◽  
Bridget J. M. Stutchbury ◽  
Bonnie E. Woolfenden
Keyword(s):  
Mating Success ◽  
American Redstart ◽  
Pair Mating ◽  
Extra Pair Mating ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals The relationship between male moth density and female mating success in invading populations ofLymantria dispar

2012 ◽  
Vol 146 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick C. Tobin ◽  
Ksenia S. Onufrieva ◽  
Kevin W. Thorpe
Keyword(s):  
Mating Success ◽  
Female Mating ◽  
Male Moth ◽  
The Relationship

Does the number of males influence the relationship between dominance and mating success in primates?

1992 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 1159-1161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Barton ◽  
Adrian J. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Mating Success ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Number Of Males

scholarly journals Unpacking mating success and testing Bateman’s principles in a human population

2019 ◽  
Vol 286 (1908) ◽  
pp. 20191516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder ◽  
Cody T. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Mating Success ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Mating Systems ◽  
Reproductive Behaviour ◽  
Natural Fertility ◽  
East African ◽  
Seasonally Breeding ◽  
The Relationship

Human marriage systems, characterized by long-term partnerships and extended windows of parental care, differ from the mating systems of pulsed or seasonally breeding non-human animals in which Bateman’s principles were originally tested. These features, paradigmatic of but not unique to humans, complicate the accurate measurement of mating success in evaluating Bateman’s three principles. Here, we unpack the concept of mating success into distinct components: number of partners, number of years partnered, the timing of partnerships, and the quality of partners. Drawing on longitudinal records of marriage and reproduction collected in a natural-fertility East African population over a 20-year period, we test and compare various models of the relationship between mating success and reproductive success (RS), and show that an accurate assessment of male and female reproductive behaviour requires consideration of all major components of mating success. Furthermore, we demonstrate that while Bateman’s third principle holds when mating success is defined in terms of years married, women’s fitness increases whereas men’s fitness decreases from an increase in the number of marriage partners, holding constant the total effective duration of marriages. We discuss these findings in terms of the distinct, sex-specific pathways through which RS can be optimized, and comment on the contribution of this approach to the broader study of sexual selection.

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