On the emergence of intersexual selection: Arbitrary trait preference improves female-male coevolution

Bull, Larry

Abstract

Sexual selection is a fundamental aspect of evolution for all eukaryotic organisms with mating types. This article suggests intersexual selection is best viewed as a mechanism with which to compensate for the unavoidable dynamics of coevolution between sexes that emerge with isogamy. Using the NKCS model it is shown by varying fitness landscape size, ruggedness, and connectedness, how a purely arbitrary trait preference sexual selection mechanism proves beneficial with high dependence between the sexes. This is found to be the case whether one or both sexes exploit such intersexual selection.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Feb 10, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Jun 11, 2021
• Publication Date: 2021-12
• Deposit Date: Apr 21, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 21, 2021
• Journal: Artificial Life
• Print ISSN: 1064-5462
• Electronic ISSN: 1530-9185
• Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 15-25
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/artl_a_00335
• Keywords: allosome; diploid; isogamy; meiosis; NKCS model
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7096242