Sexual selection has given the most brilliant colours, elegant patterns, and other ornaments to the males.

性选择曾给予雄体最鲜艳的色泽，优美的样式以及其他装饰物。

This process of sexual selection, Dr Miller and his followers believe, is the reason people have become so brainy.

米勒博士和他的追随者们相信，人类之所以变得如此聪明，性选择过程就是其原因。

Or the trait could have become common through sexual selection, because people found it attractive in their partners.

或者这种特征可能在性别选择中变得普遍，因为人们觉得这在伴侣中显得有吸引力。

But Darwin also recognized other kinds of change, such as sexual selection--the success some males have at attracting females thanks to bright feathers or other displays.

但是，达尔文也认识到其它类型的变化，如性选择——某些雄性因鲜艳的羽毛或其它表现而成功吸引雌性。

Sexual selection would certainly have been a powerful driving force behind evolution in northern Europeans.

迁徙到北欧以后的演化中，性选择毫无无疑成为更为强大的推动力。

A few theories have focused on recombination – the process that occurs in sexual selection when the genetic sequences of parents are recombined.

少数理论聚焦于再结合—这一过程发生在亲代遗传序列再结合时的性选择过程中。

Such a sense of beauty and its role in animals' sexual selection as described by Darwin can be deciphered from the rhythm telepathy of a particular information ecology.

达尔文所描述的动物美感及其对性选择的作用，可以从节律感应这种特殊的信息生态得到解释。

Some biologists go so far as to blame sexual selection for the conspicuous consumption that threatens humanity's future.

一些生物学家甚至走得更远，他们把“显眼的消费将毁灭人类的未来”归为性选择的罪过。

This process favoring large body size is known as sexual selection, and apparently, it also worked for our Stone-Age ancestors.

这一偏爱大块头体格的进程叫作性选择，我们石器时代的祖先们显然也受到了影响。

The process in this case is driven, not by natural selection (predation pressure), but by sexual selection.

引发这一过程的并非自然选择（物竞压力），而是性选择。

His shimmering train of feathers tipped with eye-shaped spots ranks among the most cited examples of what Darwin called sexual selection.

雄孔雀那闪烁着光泽的带有眼状斑的尾羽，是达尔文的性选择理论的最典型例证。

"We suggest the mane's evolution is the result of sexual selection, " said West, a doctoral candidate whose dissertation led to the paper.

著文指导该项研究的博士候选人瓦斯特说：“我们认为鬃毛的进化是性别选择的必然结果”。

Researchers have tended to consider human sexual selection through the lens of the female’s choice of her mate.

研究人员倾向于透过女人对配偶的选择来细思人类的性选择。

Studies of threatened bird species suggest that sexual selection can indeed drive populations to extinction.

对濒危鸟类的研究显示性选择确实能导致群体灭绝。

Although both natural and sexual selection have played a part in the evolution of the blue-eyed blonde, sexual selection was probably the primary force.

尽管自然选择和性选择，对蓝眼金发的演进都起了作用，但性选择很可能起了主要作用。

The most widely accepted example of sympatric speciation is that of the cichlids of LakeNabugabo in East Africa, which is thought to be due to sexual selection.

最普遍被承认的同域物种形成的例子是，东非那布加波的慈鲷，该例子被认为是由性选择引起的。

Genes for spectacular male tails are thus preserved and promoted over the generations in a process that is called sexual selection.

受世代性选择的过程的影响，雄性华丽的尾巴的基因因此得到保留并进化。

It's possible that sexual selection drove the evolution of this extravagant plumage, much as it drives the evolution of peacock trains today.

和现代孔雀的尾屏一样，很可能是性选择导致了进化过程中羽毛的过度生长。

But if music is functional, it may be that sexual selection and social selection have actually given each other a helping hand.

但若音乐果真是一种工具，可能是性选择和社会选择相互作用的结果。

Researchers have tended to consider human sexual selection through the lens of the female's choice of her mate.

研究者往往通过女性对其配偶的选择来考虑人类的性选择。

This means sexual selection, not other evolutionary mechanisms, is probably at work.

这表明，很可能是两性选择，而非其他进化途径在起作用。

Men are likely to pursue short-term mating strategies when faced with a threatening environment, according to sexual selection theory based on evolutionary psychology.

根据进化心理学的性选择理论，在威胁性环境里，男性很可能追求短期交配策略。

Some scholars, however, draw an analogy with sexual selection.

不过一些学者用伴侣选择的类比来进行解释。

However, that observation also supports the idea that sexual selection is involved, since the whole point is that not everyone will be equally able to perform, or even to learn how to do so.

然而，这同样证明，性选择也在其中扮演了角色，因为音乐并非所有人都有相同的表演能力，甚至学习能力。

The phenomenon, driven by sexual selection, becomes more pronounced when male-like females are common relative to males.

由于交配选择，相对于雄性来说似雄的雌性越来越普遍的现象更加明显。

From the evolutionary theory of sexual selection we predicted that male faces may signal physical dominance and that more dominant men would be more likely to be exploitative because they can be.

根据性选择进化理论，我们预测男性的脸可能具有体力强势的信号，那么这些信号越强的男士越有可能剥夺别人，因为他们可以这么做。

"The finding that immune responsiveness and parasite intensity correlates with colouration suggests that melanin-based colouration could play a role in sexual selection, " explains Ms Jacquin.

鸟类的颜色与免疫反应及寄生虫有关的研究结果表明，鸟类颜色的黑色素水平在异性选择方面起关键作用。