What is sexual selection? A rent-seeking approach

Michael T. Ghiselin ()
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Michael T. Ghiselin: California Academy of Sciences

Journal of Bioeconomics, 2016, vol. 18, issue 2, No 13, 153-158

Abstract: Abstract Natural, artificial, and sexual selection played different roles in Darwin’s theoretical system and his arguments. Natural selection explained adaptation without recourse to teleology. Artificial selection provided a plausibility argument for selection in general. Sexual selection provided a critical test of selection and showed that it may lead to maladaptation. Sexual selection in evolutionary theory resembles rent-seeking in economic theory.

Keywords: Artificial selection; Charles Darwin; Rent-seeking; Sexual selection; Teleology; Tragedy of the commons (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s10818-016-9223-x

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