Which of the Following Statements About Sexual Selection Is True

question 39

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about sexual selection is true?

• A) Traits favored by sexual selection are often costly to males.
• B) Sexual selection operates primarily on survival success.
• C) Females gain a fitness benefit by choosing males on the basis of traits that can easily be faked.
• D) Darwin's contemporaries immediately recognized the importance of his ideas about sexual selection.
• E) Sexual selection applies to the ability of individuals of one sex to compete for access to members of the opposite sex, not to matters of sexual attractiveness.

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