What does it mean if intrasexual selection plays a larger role than intersexual selection?

Laera

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A year ago

I've read an articel that stated that apparently intrasexual competition plays a larger role in human male selection than intersexual selection because physical dominace predictet a higher mating success than sexual attractivness. Now i didnt understand exacly what that means. It sounds like rape to me but than again, im not a biologist and english is only my second language. So now i'd like to know how that's possible and what exacly that means.

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bio_man

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A year ago

The dominant male, alpha male exists in Homo sapiens, for sure. Not sure how this reminds you of "rape". Could you clarify that a little bit more, that is, your justification for that conclusion?

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