Sexual Selection Is Best Defined as

question 25

Multiple Choice

Sexual selection is best defined as

• A) the physical competition for access to females.
• B) the competition for resources to access females.
• C) natural selection in one sex caused by a trait's attractiveness to members of the
• Opposite sex.
• D) selection of males by females on the basis of disposition, physical appearance, and hierarchical position.

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Definitions:

Population Standard Deviation

A measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values in a population.

Sampling Distribution

The statistical distribution that represents the probability of various outcomes, originating from a vast number of samples from a targeted population.

Standard Deviation

The square root of the variance showing how much individual data points differ from the mean.

Central Limit Theorem

A statistical principle stating that the sampling distribution of the sample mean approaches a normal distribution as the sample size increases, regardless of the population's distribution.