最近《科学》杂志上刊登了来自英国东英吉利亚大学的一项科研研究,它指出,雌性不停的寻找不同的性伴侣竟是一种生物进化的必然性。
在现实生活中人们总是责怪男人比较花心,然而这项研究却直指另一极端,在自然的进化中,雌性低等动物更为频繁的更换自己的性伴侣,因为这是生物进化的必然性。
研究人员们发现动物界的雌性都有着乱性的行为,常见的如黑猩猩、鸡、三文鱼、海胆。

雌性三文鱼频繁更换性伴侣
经过长期的观察,研究人员发现红面粉甲虫如果只与1个甲虫交配,那么后代只有50%的存活率。但那些与5个甲虫发生过交配行为的,存活率会高很多。事实上不仅甲虫如此,自然界中很多生物都是同一个道理。
科学家们惊奇的发现雌性动物有一种天生的能力,能从大量的精子当中,找到最适合自己的精子。所以如果它们能够尽可能获取不同的精子样品。经过选择后,雌性本能会挑选最适合的雄性繁衍后代。这听上去虽然很荒诞,但却顺应了生物进化潮流的趋势,在经过不断的选择后,后代才会不断的优化。
相关英文论文摘要:
Inbreeding Promotes Female Promiscuity
The widespread phenomenon of polyandry (mating by females with multiple males) is an evolutionary puzzle, because females can sustain costs from promiscuity, whereas full fertility can be provided by a single male. Using the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, we identify major fitness benefits of polyandry to females under inbreeding, when the risks of fertilization by incompatible male haplotypes are especially high. Fifteen generations after inbred populations had passed through genetic bottlenecks, we recorded increased levels of female promiscuity compared with noninbred controls, most likely due to selection from prospective fitness gains through polyandry. These data illustrate how this common mating pattern can evolve if population genetic bottlenecks increase the risks of fitness depression due to fertilization by sperm carrying genetically incompatible haplotypes.
