Offspring Quality and the Polygyny Threshold: "The Sexy Son Hypothesis"

作者: Patrick J. Weatherhead , Raleigh J. Robertson

DOI: 10.1086/283379

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摘要: An expansion of the Orians-Verner model for the evolution of polygyny has been made to explain evidence contradictory to that model. By separating the individual quality of the male …

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