Evolution of multiple sexual preferences by Fisher’s runaway process of sexual selection

The genetical theory of natural selection

1930 • 17,330 citations

Models of speciation by sexual selection on polygenic traits

1981 • 2,233 citations

SEXUAL SELECTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF FEMALE CHOICE

1982 • 1,066 citations

Why have birds got multiple sexual ornaments?

1993 • 826 citations

THE EVOLUTION OF COSTLY MATE PREFERENCES II. THE “HANDICAP” PRINCIPLE

1991 • 700 citations

THE EVOLUTION OF COSTLY MATE PREFERENCES I. FISHER AND BIASED MUTATION

1991 • 382 citations

The costs of choice in sexual selection

1987 • 367 citations

Natural and sexual selection on many loci.

1991 • 344 citations

Sex Ratio Manipulation and Selection for Attractiveness

1981 • 297 citations

Adaptive landscapes, genetic distance and the evolution of quantitative characters

1987 • 258 citations

Positive genetic correlation between female preference and preferred male ornament in sticklebacks

1993 • 249 citations

The maintenance of polygenic variation through a balance between mutation and stabilizing selection

1986 • 163 citations

Ecological Abstraction: The Consequences of Reduced Dimensionality in Ecological Models

1981 • 153 citations

On the cost of searching for a mate in female pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca

1988 • 147 citations

The costs of female choice in a lekking bird

1992 • 112 citations

Genetics and evolution of female choice

1986 • 69 citations

The Strut Display of Male Sage Grouse: a "Fixed" Action Pattern

1973 • 67 citations

Structural instability of models of sexual selection

1989 • 66 citations

Does runaway sexual selection work in finite populations?

1989 • 45 citations

Setbacks in the search for mate-preference genes

1992 • 33 citations