SEXUAL SELECTION SIMULATION

▸ Building male & female populations…
▸ Calibrating female preference
▸ Wiring the survival ↔ attraction trade-off
▸ Loading predators & the lek
▸ Starting evolution across generations…
▸ Ready — Online. ✅
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Simulation room Sexual selection

Sexual Selection
Online
female choice · male combat · runaway
Selection pressure
🦚 Attraction ↔ Survival
Avg trait—
Female preference—
Generation—
Predation pressure—
Survival rate—
Mechanism—
Note
Sexual selection rewards reproductive success, not longevity. That is why costly traits (the peacock's tail, deer antlers) still evolve — as long as the allure benefit outweighs the survival cost.
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Drag "Female preference" & "Predation pressure" or pick a Scenario (female choice / male combat / predation / runaway / lek) · click a trait for details
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Evolution over time traitfemale pref.survival
About Sexual Selection

Sexual Selection is one of 20 topics in the Living World domain (10¹ m scale) at My Labs — an interactive simulation atlas. This virtual lab runs right in your browser: adjust the parameters, pick a scenario and watch the phenomenon change in real time, with a click-to-inspect cross-section for every structure.

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