Sexual selection plays an important role in species evolution and speciation, and is fundamental to understanding of biological evolution. In the last decades, research on sexual selection helped understand its causes and impacts in species evolution, sexual dimorphism, and speciation. It also provided interesting examples that can be used to engage students in learning about evolution. Here we review the latest sexual selection research and propose two activities that model evolution by sexual selection. The engaging nature of these activities makes them useful to promote active learning about evolution, the nature of science, and methods used to construct scientific knowledge. Importantly, we address several performance expectations suggested by the Next Generation Science Standards.
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1 February 2017
Sexual Selection: A Short Review on Its Causes and Outcomes, and Activities to Teach Evolution and the Nature of Science
Xana Sá-Pinto,
Pedro Cardia,
Rita Campos
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The American Biology Teacher
Vol. 79 • No. 2
February 2017
Vol. 79 • No. 2
February 2017
educational resources
mate choice
mate competition
scientific inquiry
scientific models
sexual dimorphism
sexual selection