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Evolutionary biology

the proposal that a female may gain by mating with an attractive male, even at a direct cost, because her sons inherit his attractiveness.

In evolutionary biology, sexy son hypothesis refers to the proposal that a female may gain by mating with an attractive male, even at a direct cost, because her sons inherit his attractiveness. This meaning comes from Weatherhead (1979) in The American Naturalist.[1]

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References

Weatherhead, P. J., & Robertson, R. J. (1979). Offspring Quality and the Polygyny Threshold: "The Sexy Son Hypothesis". The American Naturalist, 113(2), 201-208. https://doi.org/10.1086/283379

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