Teaching MPPSC Assistant Professor Mock Test Series 2025 Life Sciences Evolution and Behavior Evolutionary Mechanisms
Which of the following statement about Natural selection is INCORRECT?
1
Peacock's tail reduces the male's survival fitness as the tail reduces powers of flight, and its growth also imposes an energetic cost.
2
Sexual selection operates more powerfully in monogamous than in polygamous species.
3
A costly or deleterious character that reduces survival fitness of the male is positively useful to the female. This is called the handicap theory.
4
Polygamous species have stronger sexual dimorphism.