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#XL - T Zoology

Sexual dimorphism can evolve when selection favors the expression of a trait to be different in males and females. 

This situation is called sexually antagonistic selection, because an increase in the trait’s expression benefits one sex but harms the other.

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#Id: 9413

#XL - T Zoology

An individual without gonads will leave no genes to the next generation. Gonads and genitalia are called primary sexual traits.

Secondary sexual traits, which differ between the sexes but do not play a direct role in reproduction.

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#Id: 9414

#XL - T Zoology

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#Id: 9415

#XL - T Zoology

Lack the form of sex based on meiosis that is familiar from animals and plants, they exchange genes using a variety of mechanisms that together are called “parasexuality”

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#Id: 9416

#XL - T Zoology

A trait can evolve by sexual selection if it increases a male’s overall fitness, even if it decreases survival.

Exaggerated secondary sexual traits are favored by sexual selection because they increase male mating success.

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#Id: 9417

#XL - T Zoology

The second part of Darwin’s hypothesis is that exaggerated secondary sexual traits decrease survival.