Sexual Conflict: The Battle of the Sexes Reversed

Kokko, Hanna; Jennions, Michael

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Sexual Conflict: The Battle of the Sexes Reversed

Date

2008

Authors

Kokko, Hanna

Jennions, Michael

Publisher

Cell Press

Abstract

In most species one sex is more reluctant to mate than the other. Standard explanations invoking potential reproductive rates have shortcomings that are illustrated by a new study of eager female and reluctant male antelopes.