Question

1.Why would you predict that females in species with internal fertilization and long periods of gestation would be choosier in selecting their mates than females in other species that lack these traits?

2.As we talked about in elephant seals, in many species, there is much greater variance in male reproductive success than in female reproductive success. This could result from a few dominant males controlling the access to the breeding grounds the females need to give birth. There are other ways, however, to get the same pattern of variance in male reproductive success WITHOUT males controlling access to a resource or to females. How might you get the same variance in male reproductive success via intersexual selection?