Sexual selection: Difference between revisions

'''Selection''' refers to a mechanism that decides who gets to pass on their genes to the next generation. '''Sexual selection''' simply refers to selection done by members of the opposite sex e.g. in accordance to their ''mate preferences'', but related mechanisms e.g. arranged marriages. Other kinds of selection are for example ''environmental or asexual selection'', referring to selection performed by the environment or ecology e.g. due to famines, disease or natural death, everything that is not sexual. Further, there is ''kin selection'', referring to selection influenced by relatives (e.g. mutual support within families could plausibly be kin selected). Lastly, there is ''group selection'', i.e. selection based on how the individual affects the survival and reproduction of entire groups.