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Signals that have evolved through sexual selection are either designed to attract the opposite sex, or to intimidate rivals of the same sex. Males often compete with each other for access to limited or valuable territories, food or mates, and have been shown to use signals that communicate their... 

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Darwin was a pluralist. He was very careful to state that natural selection is not the only motor of evolutionary change. He invented the concept of sexual selection, the only addition to natural selection which evolutionary psychology theorists are prepared to include in their pantheon. We need not be Lamarckian to accept that other processes are at work. The existence of neutral mutations, founder effects, genetic drift, exaptations and adoptations (Dover, 2000) all enrich the picture. 

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Penn, D.J. (2002) The scent of genetic compatibility sexual selection and the major histocompatibility complex. Ethology 108, 1-21. 

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Reusch, T., Haberli, M., Aeschlimann, P. and Milinski, M. (2001) Female sticklebacks count alleles in a strategy of sexual selection explaining MHC polymorphism. Nature 414, 300-302. 

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Rulicke, T., Guncz, N. and Wedekind, C. (2006) Early maternal investment in mice no evidence for compatible-genes sexual selection despite hybrid vigor. J. Evol. Biol. 19, 922-928. 

In mammals, olfactory cues play an important role in sexual selection, both during matechoice and male contests (Andersson 1994) and as olfactory cues are almost always multi-component, they provide a multitude of possibilities to encode information (Albone 1984). Chemical signals may provide information about health (Penn and Potts 1998 Kavaliers, Colwell, Braun and Choleris 2003 Zala, Potts and Penn 2004), dominance status (Gosling and Roberts 2001), sex and group membership (Hofer, East, Sammang and Dehnhard 2001 Safi and Kerth 2003) respectively population affiliation (Hayes, Richardson, Claus and Wyllie 2002). 

Penn, D. and Potts, W.K. (1998) Chemical signals and parasite-mediated sexual selection. Trends Ecol. Evolut. 13, 391-396... 

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Pawlowski, B. (1999) Loss of oestrus and concealed ovulation in human evolution - the case against the sexual-selection hypothesis. Curr. Anthropol. 40, 257-275. 

Byers, J.A. and Waits, L. (2006) Good genes sexual selection in nature. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sd. USA 103, 16343-16345. 

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