Females prefer to mate with males with traits that require lots of resources to produce.
A) don't particularly pay attention to that. On the other hand, they do typically prefer mates with good genes.
B) They do. Those are 'honest signals' of male quality.
A: Yes they only concentrate on male genes .
The 'good genes' hypothesis postulates that females select their mates based on genetic quality, so as to have high-viability offspring. Thus, the expected fertility benefit a female gets from a given male depends on the number of previous copulations he has had with other females.
B: yes , genes are honest signals of male quality as good genes of male would result in strong and power offspring.
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