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Evolutionary biology

the puzzle of why females keep strongly choosing among males when choice should exhaust the genetic variation it acts on.

In evolutionary biology, lek paradox refers to the puzzle of why females keep strongly choosing among males when choice should exhaust the genetic variation it acts on. This meaning comes from Kirkpatrick (1991) in Nature.[1]

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References

Kirkpatrick, M., & Ryan, M. J. (1991). The evolution of mating preferences and the paradox of the lek. Nature, 350(6313), 33-38. https://doi.org/10.1038/350033a0

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