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Marlene Zuk

American ecologist
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  • William Donald Hamilton

    With American ecologist Marlene Zuk, Hamilton also developed the Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis of sexual selection, which explains the evolutionary benefit behind the female preference for healthy, parasite-free males.

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    With American ecologist Marlene Zuk, Hamilton also developed the Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis of sexual selection, which explains the evolutionary benefit behind the female preference for healthy, parasite-free males.

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  • good genes hypothesis

    Hamilton and American behavioral ecologist Marlene Zuk first proposed this hypothesis in the early 1980s.

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    Hamilton and American behavioral ecologist Marlene Zuk first proposed this hypothesis in the early 1980s.

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