PERSPECTIVE: INDIRECT MATE CHOICE, COMPETITION FOR MATES, AND COEVOLUTION OF THE SEXES

The genetical theory of natural selection

1930 • 17,330 citations

Parental Investment and Sexual Selection

2017 • 9,626 citations

Sexual Selection

1994 • 6,925 citations

Ecology, Sexual Selection, and the Evolution of Mating Systems

1977 • 6,145 citations

The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex

1871 • 3,296 citations

Sexual selection and the descent of man. 1871–1971

1975 • 2,507 citations

Red Deer. Behavior and Ecology of Two Sexes

1983 • 2,502 citations

Biological signals as handicaps

1990 • 2,442 citations

The Evolution of insect mating systems

2015 • 2,409 citations

Growing points in ethology

1977 • 2,303 citations

Models of speciation by sexual selection on polygenic traits

1981 • 2,233 citations

The Evolution of Insect Mating Systems

1983 • 1,792 citations

The social behaviour of anuran amphibians

1977 • 1,579 citations

THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION

2009 • 1,572 citations

Sexual Selection and Animal Genitalia

1985 • 1,439 citations

The evolution of mating preferences and the paradox of the lek

1991 • 1,327 citations

Sexual Selection and Animal Genitalia

1985 • 1,272 citations

ON THE MEASUREMENT OF NATURAL AND SEXUAL SELECTION: THEORY

1984 • 1,223 citations

The Economy of Nature and the Evolution of Sex.

1974 • 1,153 citations

SEXUAL SELECTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF FEMALE CHOICE

1982 • 1,066 citations

Sexual Selection: Testing the Alternatives

1987 • 1,060 citations

Current problems in sociobiology

1984 • 979 citations

Ecological Aspects of Social Evolution

1987 • 892 citations

Potential Reproductive Rates and the Operation of Sexual Selection

1992 • 819 citations

Sexual selection and the barn swallow

1995 • 735 citations

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

1991 • 700 citations

The Economy of Nature and the Evolution of Sex

1976 • 699 citations

SEXUAL SELECTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF SONG

1986 • 616 citations

Territorial defence in the speckled wood butterfly (Pararge aegeria): The resident always wins

1978 • 606 citations

Sexual selection unhandicapped by the fisher process

1990 • 591 citations

EVOLUTION OF CONDITION-DEPENDENT SEX ORNAMENTS AND MATING PREFERENCES: SEXUAL SELECTION BASED ON VIABILITY DIFFERENCES

1986 • 575 citations

Female Incitation of Male Competition: A Mechanism in Sexual Selection

1977 • 570 citations

Search Theory and Mate Choice. I. Models of Single-Sex Discrimination

1990 • 549 citations

Mechanisms in Insect Olfaction

1986 • 527 citations

Sexual Selection and the Barn Swallow

1994 • 514 citations

Strategies of female mate choice: A theoretical analysis

1980 • 504 citations

Sexual selection, natural selection and quality advertisement

1982 • 501 citations

THE EVOLUTION OF MATING STRATEGIES IN BULLFROGS, RANA CATESBEIANA

1978 • 485 citations

Social organization and foraging in emballonurid bats

1976 • 443 citations

Sexual selection, sensory systems and sensory exploitation.

1990 • 431 citations

Female pied flycatchers choose territory quality and not male characteristics

1986 • 421 citations

Sexual Selection and Imitation: Females Copy the Mate Choice of Others

1992 • 415 citations

The costs of choice in sexual selection

1987 • 367 citations

Sexual selection and signal evolution: the ghost of biases past

1993 • 337 citations

A MODEL FOR THE EVOLUTION OF PINNIPED POLYGYNY

1970 • 336 citations

Experimental reversal of courtship roles in an insect

1990 • 321 citations

Forced Copulation in Waterfowl

1983 • 290 citations

Sexual selection by male–male competition in natterjack toad choruses

1983 • 270 citations

Traditionality of mating-site preferences in a coral reef fish

1988 • 267 citations

Evolution of Female Choice and Male Parental Investment in Polygynous Species: The Demise of the "Sexy Son"

1985 • 263 citations

Female mate copying in the guppy {Poecilia reticulata): age-dependent effects

1993 • 260 citations

Old World Monkeys: Evolution, Systematics and Behavior

1971 • 260 citations

Sexual selection when the female directly benefits

1993 • 260 citations

Independent Versus Nonindependent Mate Choice: Do Females Copy Each Other?

1992 • 258 citations

Territoriality and Non-Random Mating in Sage Grouse, Centrocercus urophasianus

1973 • 238 citations

Mate guarding, reproductive success and female choice in African elephants

1989 • 235 citations

Beetles, Competition, and Populations

1962 • 229 citations

Copying and sexual selection

1992 • 215 citations

Polygyny and extrapair fertilizations in eastern red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus)

1993 • 210 citations

Lekking in Birds and Mammals: Behavioral and Evolutionary Issues

1991 • 203 citations

Sexual competition among females: What causes courtship-role reversal?

1991 • 198 citations

The Evolution of Mating Strategies in Bullfrogs, Rana catesbeiana

1978 • 187 citations

Female mate selection in the natterjack toad: active choice or passive atraction?

1988 • 187 citations

Polygyny and Sexual Selection in Red-Winged Blackbirds

1996 • 172 citations

Hotspots and the dispersion of leks

1986 • 153 citations

Microgeographic Prediction of Polygyny in the Lark Bunting

1978 • 150 citations

Correlates of male mating success in a lekking bird with male-male cooperation

1989 • 142 citations

Male Quality and Female Choice of Mate in the Red‐Winged Blackbird (Agelaius Phoeniceus)

1981 • 138 citations

Sexual selection and the evolutionary effects of copying mate choice

1994 • 138 citations

Operational sex ratios and behavioural sex differences in a pipefish population

1994 • 133 citations

The evolution of conspicuous oestrous advertisement in Old World monkeys

1994 • 133 citations

Cooperation Under Sexual Selection: Age-Graded Changes in a Lekking Bird

1989 • 129 citations

Fertility Advertisement in Birds: a Means of Inciting Male‐male Competition?

1989 • 127 citations

Darwin's Theory of Sexual Selection and the Data Subsumed by it, in the Light of Recent Research

1938 • 126 citations

Macromolecular resolution of fossilized muscle tissue from an elopomorph fish

1990 • 122 citations

Is there a Unifying Concept of Sexual Selection that Applies to Both Plants and Animals?

1994 • 120 citations

Polygyny and Sexual Selection in Red-Winged Blackbirds

1995 • 119 citations

Reproductive synchrony, parental investment, and the evolutionary dynamics of sexual selection

1979 • 114 citations

Infanticide avoidance, sperm competition and mate choice: the function of copulation calls in female baboons

1994 • 110 citations

An Ecological Study of Summit Congregation Behavior of Butterflies on a Southern California Hill

1967 • 110 citations

Female choice of sites versus mates in a coral reef fish, Thalassoma bifasciatum

1987 • 108 citations

Alternative reproductive tactics in male eastern gray squirrels: “making the best of a bad job”

1993 • 105 citations

Scramble competition polygyny in thirteen-lined ground squirrels: the relative contributions of overt conflict and competitive mate searching

1986 • 94 citations

Mate competition in butterflies

1994 • 91 citations

Natural Selection and the Mating Systems of Solitary Bees

1980 • 89 citations

Male Characteristics and Pairing Success in Red-Winged Blackbirds

1979 • 87 citations

Extrapair Copulations in the Mating System of White Ibis (Eudocimus Albus)

1987 • 84 citations

A QUANTITATIVE GENETIC MODEL FOR THE ORIGIN OF MATING PREFERENCES

1984 • 79 citations

Copulatory Vocalizations of Chacma Baboons ( Papio ursinus ), Gibbons ( Hylobates hoolock ), and Humans

1978 • 76 citations

Male versus female influences on mating-site determination in a coral reef fish

1990 • 71 citations

Animal Genitalia and Female Choice

1990 • 69 citations

The role of females in influencing mating patterns

1993 • 66 citations

Sexual selection and red-winged blackbirds.

1983 • 64 citations

Models of female choice in acoustic communication

1994 • 62 citations

Fighting and assessment in the yellow-rumped cacique (Cacicus cela)

1985 • 60 citations

Experimental tests of copying and mate choice in fallow deer (Dama dama)

1993 • 60 citations

Black holes, mate retention, and the evolution of ungulate leks

1993 • 58 citations

Benefits, costs, and determinants of dominance in a polygynous oriole

1986 • 52 citations

Do chimpanzee copulatory calls incite male-male competition?

1990 • 52 citations

Quantitative genetic models of female choice based on “arbitrary” male characters

1985 • 51 citations

Female-defence polygyny in a Neotropical bird, the Montezuma oropendola

1994 • 38 citations

Dominance and mating success in male boat-tailed grackles

1992 • 33 citations

Behavioral Mechanisms in Evolutionary Ecology

1995 • 31 citations

Competition of Males, Courtship Behaviour and Chemical Communication in the Digger Wasp Bembix Rostrata (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae)

1981 • 30 citations

Social Behavior of Nesting Brewer's Blackbirds

1970 • 28 citations

Sexual behavior among parasitic Megarhyssa wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

1981 • 23 citations

Passive and active female choice: A comment

1989 • 22 citations

The Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Breeding Female Montezuma Oropendolas: Effects on Male Mating Strategies

1994 • 21 citations

Affiliation between the Sexes in Common Grackles

1976 • 20 citations

The location of landmark leks in the small heath butterfly, Coenonympha pamphilus: evidence against the hot-spot model

1995 • 16 citations

Are female boat-tailed grackle colonies neutral assemblages?

1994 • 14 citations