Question 26

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Describe the experiments that Adam Jones and colleagues (2002)used with rough-skinned newts to demonstrate the differential relative strength of sexual selection among between males and females.What is the significance that all females tend to mate with at least one male,and often with several males,whereas many of the males failed to mate and many mated only once or twice? Discuss whether sexual selection is a more potent force in the evolution of males or females,and why.

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Adam Jones and colleagues (2002) conduct...

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