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It was first proposed by [[Angus John Bateman]] (1919–1996), an English geneticist. Bateman suggested that, since males are capable of producing millions of sperm cells with little effort, while females invest much higher levels of energy in order to nurture a relatively small number of eggs, the female plays a significantly larger role in their offspring's reproductive success. Bateman's paradigm thus views females as the limiting factor of parental investment, over which males will compete in order to [[copulation (zoology)|copulate]] successfully. Although Bateman's principle served as a cornerstone for the study of [[sexual selection]] for many decades, it has recently been subject to criticism. Attempts to reproduce Bateman's experiments in 2012 and 2013 were unable to support his conclusions. Some scientists have criticized Bateman's experimental and statistical methods, or pointed out conflicting evidence, while others have defended the veracity of the principle and cited evidence in support of it. == Description == Typically it is the [[female]]s who have a relatively larger investment in producing each offspring. Bateman attributed the origin of the unequal investment to the differences in the production of gametes: sperm are cheaper than eggs. A single [[male]] can easily fertilize all of a female's eggs; she will not produce more offspring by mating with more than one male. A male is capable of fathering more offspring if he mates with several females. By and large, a male's potential reproductive success is limited by the number of females he mates with, whereas a female's potential reproductive success is limited by how many eggs she can produce. According to Bateman's principle, this results in [[sexual selection]], in which males compete with each other, and females become choosy in which males to mate with. Thus, as a result of being [[anisogamy|anisogamous]], males are fundamentally promiscuous, and females are fundamentally selective. == History == Bateman initially published his review in 1948.{{sfn|Bateman|1948}} He was a botanist, contributing to the literature of sexual selection only once in his lifetime. Bateman initially saw his study on ''[[Drosophila]]'' to be a test of Charles Darwin's doctrine of sexual selection,{{sfn|Darwin|1871}} which he saw not as flawed, but as incomplete. He felt that if he were to provide a concrete demonstration of how sexual selection played a role in the reproductive success of certain species, he could explain the gap between Darwin's ideas and sexual dimorphism. Although it is common to confuse Bateman's ideas with those of later scientists, his principle can be expressed in three simple statements. The first is that male reproductive success increases with the number of mates they attempt to copulate with, while female reproductive success does not. The second is that male reproductive success will show greater variance than female. The third is that sexual selection will have a greater effect on the sex with greater variance in reproductive success. == Bateman's study == Throughout his research, Bateman conducted experiments using fruit flies in order to observe their copulation and sexual behavior. A total of six series of experiments were conducted with the fruit fly ''[[Drosophila melanogaster]]'', using three to five individuals of each sex. Each trial ran for three or four days. Some ran to completion without the transfer of the ''Drosophila'' from one environment (bottle) to another. In the others, Bateman transferred the flies and their eggs to a new bottle every day. Bateman also varied the age of the flies depending on the experiment, with an age gap between one and six days total. He never watched the flies' copulations. The flies used were from several inbred strains, which meant they could be identified by their specific inbred strain. Therefore, he inferred the number of involved mates based on the number of offspring that were later found to have mutations from both a male and a female. The difficulty that arose was that if a female ''Drosophila'' had copulated with five males and only one larva survived, Bateman would not be able to account for the other four copulations. Analysis of the data collected in sets one through four showed that the males' reproductive success, estimated as the number of sired offspring, increased at a steady rate until a total of three mates were reached. It is important to note that Bateman kept the sex ratio of males to females completely even throughout his trials. But after surpassing three mates, male reproductive success began to fall. Female reproductive success also increased with number of mates, but much more gradually than that of the males. The second series of data collected in sets five and six illustrated a dramatically different outcome. Male reproductive success increased at a steady and steep rate, never dropping. Female reproductive success, on the other hand, plateaued after a single mate. Bateman focused mainly on the second series of data when discussing his results. His main conclusion was that the reproductive success of females does not increase with an influx of mates, as one fit mate was enough to successfully complete fertilization. This is often referred to as Bateman's Gradient. == Replication of Bateman's experiments ==  Throughout 2012 and 2013, Gowaty, Kim, and Anderson repeated Bateman's experiment in its entirety, staying as close to Bateman's published methodology as possible.<ref name="Tang-Martinez 2012"/><ref name="Gowaty2012"/> They found that upon combining certain fly strains with one another, the offspring were unable to survive to adulthood. Thus, Bateman's results regarding the number of individuals not having mated was too high. This was valid for both the males and females.<ref name="Gowaty2012"/> Gowaty desired to further explore the reasoning behind the premature death of the Drosophila. She began doing so by running monogamy trials between different strains of flies and found that 25% of the offspring died due to becoming double mutants.<ref name="Gowaty2012"/><ref name="pmid23360967">{{cite journal |vauthors=Gowaty PA, Kim YK, Anderson WW |title=Mendel's law reveals fatal flaws in Bateman's 1948 study of mating and fitness |journal=Fly |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=28–38 |date=2013 |pmid=23360967 |pmc=3660748 |doi=10.4161/fly.23505}}</ref> Bateman thought his work fit within the lines of Mendel's laws of genetics, while Gowaty proved otherwise. The 1948 experiments inferred reproductive success based on the number of adults living by the end of the trial. In reality, many factors were left out of the equation when calculating reproductive success as a function of the number of mates, which had the ability to completely dislodge the accuracy behind Bateman's results. Gowaty was not able to confirm Bateman's conclusions and found no evidence for sexual selection in the experiment.<ref name="Gowaty2012"/><ref name="Tang-Martinez 2012"/><ref name="TangMartinez2017"/><ref name="pmid23360967"/> == Related experiments == Nevertheless, some modern experiments between the relationship of number of mates and the reproductive success of males and females support Bateman's principle. Julie Collet conducted an experiment with a population of red jungle fowl.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Collet |first1=Julie M. |last2=Dean |first2=Rebecca F. |last3=Worley |first3=Kirsty |last4=Richardson |first4=David S. |last5=Pizzari |first5=Tommaso |title=The measure and significance of Bateman's principles |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |date=7 May 2014 |volume=281 |issue=1782 |pages=20132973 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2013.2973 |pmid=24648220 |pmc=3973258 }}</ref> A total of thirteen replicate groups of three males and four females were monitored for ten days. In this experiment, the sex ratio was biased toward females. A male's reproductive success was calculated using the proportion of embryos fathered to the total number of embryos produced by all the females he mated with. The total sexual selection opportunity was calculated using the following formula. The ''σ''<sup>2</sup>&nbsp;represents the variance in RS, while the{{clarify|date=December 2016}} is the square mean of reproductive success of members of one sex in a group. In 2013, Fritzsche and Arnqvist tested Bateman's principle by estimating sexual selection between males and females in four seed beetles. They used a unique experimental design that showed sexual selection to be greater in males than in females. In contrast, sexual selection was also shown to be stronger for females in role-reversed species. They suggested that the Bateman gradient is typically the most accurate and informative measure of sexual selection between different sexes and species.<ref name="Fritzsche">{{Cite journal|journal=Evolution|first1=Karoline|last1=Fritzsche|first2=Göran|last2=Arnqvist|date=2013-02-25|title=Homage to Bateman: Sex Roles Predict Sex Differences In Sexual Selection|language=en|volume=67|issue=7|pages=1926–1936|doi=10.1111/evo.12086|pmid=23815650|s2cid=21585719|doi-access=}}</ref> == Modern criticism == More than 60 years later, Bateman's principle has received considerable attention. Sutherland argued that males' higher variance in reproductive success may result from random mating and coincidence. Hubbell and Johnson suggested that variance in reproductive success can be greatly influenced by the time and allocations of mating. In 2005, Gowaty and Hubbell suggested that mating tendencies are subject to change depending on certain strategies. They argued that there are cases in which males can be more selective than females, whereas Bateman suggested that his paradigm would be “almost universal” among sexually reproducing species. Critics proposed that females might be more subject to sexual selection than males, but not in all circumstances.<ref name="Newcomer">{{Cite journal|last1=Newcomer|first1=Scott D.|last2=Zeh|first2=Jeanne A.|last3=Zeh|first3=David W.|date=1999-08-31|title=Genetic benefits enhance the reproductive success of polyandrous females |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=96|issue=18 |pages=10236–10241 |doi=10.1073/pnas.96.18.10236|issn=0027-8424|pmid=10468592|pmc=17872|bibcode=1999PNAS...9610236N|doi-access=free}}</ref> Experimental and statistical criticisms followed. Until approximately a decade ago{{When|date=September 2023}}, critics of Bateman's model focused on his experimental design. In recent years, they have shifted attention to the actual experimental and statistical calculations Bateman published throughout his trials. Birkhead wrote a 2000 review arguing that since Bateman's experiments lasted only three to four days, the female fruit fly, ''Drosophila melanogaster'', may not have needed to mate repeatedly, as it can store sperm for up to four days; if Bateman had used a species in which females had to copulate more often to fertilize their eggs, the results might have been different. Snyder and Gowaty conducted the first in-depth analysis of the data in Bateman's 1948 paper. They found sampling biases, mathematical errors, and selective presentation of data.<ref name="Snyder2007">{{cite journal |last1=Snyder |first1=Brian F. |last2=Gowaty |first2=Patricia Adair |title=A Reappraisal of Bateman's Classic Study of Intrasexual Selection |journal=Evolution |date=November 2007 |volume=61 |issue=11 |pages=2457–2468 |doi=10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00212.x|pmid=17725639 |s2cid=29962172 |doi-access=free }}</ref> A 2012 review by [[Zuleyma Tang-Martinez|Zuleyma Tang-Martínez]] concluded that various empirical and theoretical studies, especially Gowaty's reproduction of Bateman's original experiment, pose a major challenge to Bateman's conclusions, and that Bateman's principle should be considered an unproven hypothesis in need of further reexamination.<ref name="Tang-Martinez 2012">{{cite journal |last1=Tang-Martinez |first1=Zuleyma |title=Repetition of Bateman challenges the paradigm |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |date=6 July 2012 |volume=109 |issue=29 |pages=11476–11477 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1209394109 |pmid=22773808 |pmc=3406825|bibcode=2012PNAS..10911476T |doi-access=free }}</ref> According to Tang-Martínez, "modern data simply don't support most of Bateman's and [[Robert Trivers|Trivers]]'s predictions and assumptions."<ref name="TangMartinez2017">{{cite web |last1=Tang-Martinez |first1=Zuleyma |title=Data Should Smash the Biological Myth of Promiscuous Males and Sexually Coy Females |url=http://theconversation.com/data-should-smash-the-biological-myth-of-promiscuous-males-and-sexually-coy-females-59665 |website=The Conversation |access-date=4 June 2018 |language=en |date=20 January 2017}}</ref> A 2016 review confirmed Darwinian sex roles across the animal kingdom, concluding that "sexual selection, as captured by standard Bateman metrics, is indeed stronger in males than in females and that it is evolutionarily tied to sex biases in parental care and sexual dimorphism."<ref name=Janicke2016>{{cite journal |title=Darwinian sex roles confirmed across the animal kingdom |first1=Tim |last1=Janicke |first2=Ines K. |last2=Häderer |first3=Marc J. |last3=Lajeunesse |first4=Nils |last4=Anthes |date=1 February 2016|journal=Science Advances |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=e1500983 |doi=10.1126/sciadv.1500983 |pmid=26933680 |pmc=4758741|bibcode=2016SciA....2E0983J }}</ref> One error source that have been shown to give an illusion of greater differential in reproductive success in males than in females genetically is that chromosome effects cause a greater percentage of mutations to be lethal before even reaching sexual maturity in males than in females.<ref name="Gowaty2012">{{cite journal | last1=Gowaty | first1=P. A. | last2=Kim | first2=Y.-K. | last3=Anderson | first3=W. W. | title=No evidence of sexual selection in a repetition of Bateman's classic study of Drosophila melanogaster | journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | volume=109 | issue=29 | date=11 June 2012 | issn=0027-8424 | doi=10.1073/pnas.1207851109 | pmid=22689966 | pmc=3406809 | pages=11740–11745 | doi-access=free }}</ref> The assumption that any differential in reproductive success between males and females among the individuals that do reach sexual maturity must be due to sexual selection in the current population is also subject to criticism, such as the possibility of remnants of sexually selected traits in a previous species from which a new species have evolved can be negatively selected due to costs in nutrients and weakened immune systems and that such negative selection would cause a higher difference in reproductive success in males than in females even without any still ongoing sexual selection. Since lower degrees of selection during times of stable environment allows genetic variation to build up by random mutations and allow some individuals in a population to survive environmental change while strong constant selection offsets the effect and increases the risk of the entire population dying out during catastrophic environmental change due to less genetic variation, constant loss of genetic variation caused by sexual selection have been suggested as a factor contributing to higher [[extinction]] rates in more sexually dimorphic species besides the nutrient, immunity and other costs of the ornaments themselves. While the ornament cost risk would only be removed when the ornaments have been eliminated by selection, the genetic variation model predicts that the species ability to survive would improve significantly even at an early stage of reduction of sexual dimorphism due to other adaptive mutations arising and surviving due to minimal selection during times of stable environment while the genes causing sexually dimorphic anatomy have only in small part been affected by the mutations. Applied to human evolution, this model can explain why early ''[[Homo sapiens]]'' display a significantly increased adaptability to environmental change already at its early divergence from ''[[Homo erectus]]'' that had a high muscular sexual dimorphism, as well as why human anatomy through the history of Homo sapiens show a diversification during times of stable climate and a selective loss of the more robust male forms during environmental change that does not recover during later stability, continuing through the loss of many robust characteristics in regional bottlenecks as recent as the end of the Ice Age and the time around the [[Neolithic Revolution|agricultural revolution]]. It also explains genetic evidence of human genetic diversity increasing during stable environmental periods and being reduced during bottlenecks related to changes in the environment.<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Anthes | first1=Nils | last2=Häderer | first2=Ines K. | last3=Michiels | first3=Nico K. | last4=Janicke | first4=Tim | editor-last=Schielzeth | editor-first=Holger | title=Measuring and interpreting sexual selection metrics: evaluation and guidelines | journal=Methods in Ecology and Evolution | volume=8 | issue=8 | date=20 December 2016 | issn=2041-210X | doi=10.1111/2041-210x.12707 | pages=918–931| doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1=Zuk | first1=Marlene | last2=Garcia-Gonzalez | first2=Francisco | last3=Herberstein | first3=Marie Elisabeth | last4=Simmons | first4=Leigh W. | title=Model Systems, Taxonomic Bias, and Sexual Selection: Beyond Drosophila | journal=Annual Review of Entomology | volume=59 | issue=1 | date=7 January 2014 | issn=0066-4170 | doi=10.1146/annurev-ento-011613-162014 | pmid=24160422 | pages=321–338 | hdl=10261/90632 | hdl-access=free }}</ref> == Conflicting evidence == Recently, DNA testing has permitted more detailed investigation of mating behavior in numerous species. The results, in many cases, have been cited as evidence against Bateman's principle.<ref name="TangMartinez2017"/><ref name="TangMartinez2016">{{cite journal | last=Tang-Martínez | first=Zuleyma | title=Rethinking Bateman's Principles: Challenging Persistent Myths of Sexually Reluctant Females and Promiscuous Males | journal=The Journal of Sex Research | volume=53 | issue=4–5 | date=13 April 2016 | issn=0022-4499 | doi=10.1080/00224499.2016.1150938 | pmid=27074147 | pages=532–559| s2cid=34715649 }}</ref> Until recently, most bird species were believed to be sexually monogamous. [[DNA paternity testing]], however, has shown that in nearly 90% of bird species, females copulate with multiple males during each breeding season.<ref name="TangMartinez2016"/><ref name="BennettOwens2002">{{cite book |last1=Bennett |first1=Peter M.|last2=Owens |first2=Ian |title=Evolutionary Ecology of Birds: Life Histories, Mating Systems, and Extinction |date=2002 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford, England |isbn=978-0198510895 |pages=77–86}}</ref> The [[superb fairy wren]] is socially monogamous, but 95% of its clutches contain young fathered by extra-pair males. Up to 87% of [[tree swallow]] clutches, 75% of [[coal tit]] clutches, and 70% of [[reed bunting]] clutches contain young fathered by extra-pair males.<ref name="TangMartinez2016"/><ref name="coaltits">{{cite journal | last1=Lubjuhn | first1=Thomas | last2=Gerken | first2=Thomas | last3=Brun | first3=Jorg | last4=Epplen | first4=Jorg T. | title=High Frequency of Extra-Pair Paternity in the Coal Tit | journal=Journal of Avian Biology | volume=30 | issue=2 | pages=229–233 | year=1999 | issn=0908-8857 | doi=10.2307/3677134 | jstor=3677134 }}</ref> Even female [[waved albatross]]es, which typically mate for life, are sexually promiscuous, with 17% of young fathered by extra-pair males.<ref name="Huyvaert2000">{{cite journal | last1=Huyvaert | first1=Kathryn P. | last2=Anderson | first2=David J. | last3=Jones | first3=Thomas C. | last4=Duan | first4=Wenrui | last5=Parker | first5=Patricia G. | title=Extra-pair paternity in waved albatrosses | journal=Molecular Ecology | volume=9 | issue=9 | year=2000 | issn=0962-1083 | doi=10.1046/j.1365-294x.2000.00996.x | pages=1415–1419 | pmid=10972780| bibcode=2000MolEc...9.1415H | s2cid=36426746 }}</ref> In many [[primate]] species, females solicit sex from males and may mate with more than one male in quick succession.<ref name="Drea2005">{{cite journal | last=Drea | first=C. M. | title=Bateman Revisited: The Reproductive Tactics of Female Primates | journal=Integrative and Comparative Biology | volume=45 | issue=5 | date=1 October 2005 | issn=1540-7063 | doi=10.1093/icb/45.5.915 | pmid=21676842 | pages=915–923| doi-access=free | citeseerx=10.1.1.510.1491 }}</ref> Female [[lion]]s may mate 100 times per day with different males while they are in [[estrus]].<ref name="Eaton1978">{{cite journal |last1=Eaton |first1=R. L. |title=Why Some Felids Copulate So Much: A Model for the Evolution of Copulation Frequency |journal=Carnivore |date=1978 |volume=1 |pages=42–51}}</ref><ref name="Hrdy1986">{{cite book |last1=Hrdy |first1=Sarah Blaffer |author-link=Sarah Blaffer Hrdy |editor1-last=Bleier |editor1-first=Ruth |title=Feminist Approaches to Science |date=1986 |publisher=Pergamon Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0080327860 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/feministapproach00ruth/page/119 119–146] |chapter=Empathy, polyandry, and the myth of the 'coy' female |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8xothimSsikC |url=https://archive.org/details/feministapproach00ruth/page/119 }}</ref> Females of the [[pseudoscorpion]] species, ''Cordylochernes scorpioides'', have been shown to have higher reproductive success when mated with more than one male.<ref name="Newcomer"/> == Sex-role reversed species == The most well-known exceptions to Bateman's principle are the existence of sex-role reversed species such as pipefish ([[seahorse]]s), [[phalarope]]s and [[Jacanidae|jacana]]s in which the males perform the majority of the parental care, and are cryptic while the females are highly ornamented and territorially aggressive.{{sfn|Emlen|Oring|1977}}{{sfn|Knowlton|1982}}{{sfn|Berglund|Widemo|Rosenqvist|2005}} In these species, however, the typical fundamental sex differences are reversed: females have a faster reproductive rate than males (and thus greater reproductive variance), and males have greater assurance of genetic parentage than do females.{{sfn|Flinn|2004}} Consequently, reversals in sex roles and reproductive variance are consistent with Bateman's principle, and with [[Robert Trivers]]'s [[parental investment]] theory. == See also == * [[Variability hypothesis]] * [[Cinderella effect]] * [[Coolidge effect]] * [[Hypergamy]] * [[Parental investment]] * [[Paternal care]] == References == {{reflist|30em}} ==Sources== {{refbegin|30em}} * {{Citation | last = Ridley | first = Mat | title = The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature | year = 2002}} * {{Citation | last = Baker| first = Robin | title = Sperm Wars: The Science of Sex | year = 2003}} * {{Citation | last = Bateman | first = A.J. | title = Intra-sexual selection in Drosophila | journal = Heredity | volume = 2 | pages = 349–368 | year = 1948 | doi = 10.1038/hdy.1948.21 | pmid = 18103134 | issue = Pt. 3| doi-access = free }} * {{Citation | last1 = Berglund | first1 = A. | last2 = Widemo | first2 = M.S. | last3 = Rosenqvist | first3 = G. | title = Sex-role reversal revisited: choosy females and ornamented, competitive males in a pipefish | journal = Behavioral Ecology | volume = 16 | pages = 649–655 | year = 2005 | doi = 10.1093/beheco/ari038 | issue = 3 | doi-access = free }} * {{Citation | last = Birkhead | first = T. | title = Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition | place = Cambridge | publisher = Harvard University Press | year = 2001 | isbn = 978-0-674-00666-9}} * {{Citation |last1=Brooker |first1=MG |last2=Rowley |first2=I |last3=Adams |first3=M |last4=Baverstock |first4=PR |date=Mar 1990 |title=Promiscuity: An inbreeding avoidance mechanism in a socially monogamous species? 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K. | last2= Häderer | first3= M. J. | last3= Lajeunesse | first4= N. | last4= Anthes | title= Darwinian sex roles confirmed across the animal kingdom | journal= [[Science Advances]] | volume= 2 | issue= 2 | date= 12 February 2016| doi= 10.1126/sciadv.1500983 | pmid= 26933680 | pmc= 4758741 | pages=e1500983| bibcode= 2016SciA....2E0983J }}. * {{Citation | last = Maynard Smith | first = J. | author-link = John Maynard Smith | title = The Evolution of Sex | place = Cambridge, UK | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 1978 | isbn = 978-0-521-29302-0}} {{refend}} == External links == * [http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/neurobio/emlen/Misc%20Info/SB_papers.html Popular articles on sex-role reversal] {{Modelling ecosystems|expanded=other}} [[Category:Ecological theories]] [[Category:Evolutionary biology]] [[Category:Principles]] [[Category:1948 introductions]] </textarea><div class="templatesUsed"><div class="mw-templatesUsedExplanation"><p><span id="templatesused">Pages transcluded onto the current version of this 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