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promiscuity Social medicine The engaging in multiple and indiscriminate sexual relationships How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It also coincides with an increase in females' extra-pair copulation frequency (Baker & Bellis, 1995) and an increase in mate guarding by a primary partner (Gangestad, Thornhill, & Garver, 2002), findings which suggest a sperm competition theory of double-mating behaviors. The female warblers engaged in extra-pair copulations with neighboring males, but only if the neighbor sang more songs than the female's steady mate. Waiting until your own female is no longer fertile before you go looking for extra-pair copulations is part of the male strategy," he asserts. |
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