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Title: How is sexual selection similar to and different from other forms of natural selection?
Post by: rizzlepuff8 on Dec 9, 2012
How is sexual selection similar to and different from other forms of natural selection (directional selection, stabilizing selection, and disruptive selection.


Title: How is sexual selection similar to and different from other forms of natural selection?
Post by: RJ5876 on Dec 9, 2012
Sexual selection IS natural selection, where the "environment" is the reproductive environment of a choosy opposite gender.

In other words, the same basic principles apply.   Any slight change that produces some advantage in reproduction, will tend, on average, to propagate into the population.