Some stuff written on the previous paper in the previous post (previous)

A bit to include in dissertation:

Mays and Hill emphasise the disparity between mate choice strategies that seek optimal genetic compatability (their example being those mates most genetically dissimilar) and those that seek the traditional good genes targets. Firstly they, by emphasising the disparity and opposition of these two strategies so strongly, miss the chance to see how there two strategies can act to moderate each other and reach a stable equilibrium. Secondly they fail to highlight the fact that neither strategy is stable on its own. A female seeking highly genetically dissimilar males may suffer reduced fecundity and also an increased incidence of recessive alleles in her offspring. The good genes strategy, usually defined as a stalwart strategy, described in much theoretical work, suffers from a tendency to inbredding depression. This of course occurs due to a runaway process of increasing correlation between the male trait and female preference. Natural selection would of course curb the extremes of this strategy. However if the two strategies were to coexist in one individual there is no need for natural selection to be involved as strongly. Instead the two strategies work best when they occur together. This is evidenced by some recent theoretical work that indicated that female mice choose their mates based on both of these supposedly opposing criteria. This paper, although well considered and thought out in its opinion, highlights the tendency for researchers to subscribe and support one theory only, in a kind of membership process, each member aligns themselves with a "side" without considering the possible synergy of the two (or more) theories. Why cant females employ good genes, genetic dissimilarity, handicap traits, sexy sons and purely aesthetic criteria in their mate selection strategy, and why can't they do so at different times based on when each strategy is most useful, if all of these strategies can be useful given different conditions, then we would expect all of them to evolve.