Sexual selection and mate choice - is there any evidence that females choose on the basis of “good genes”?

Essay from the year 2002 in the subject Biology - Behaviour, grade: 2.1, Oxford Brookes University, language: English, abstract: The “good gene” hypothesis is one of the main hypotheses regarding sexual selection by female mate choice. Sexual selection was first defined by Darwin as “the advantage which certain individuals have over others of the same sex and species, in exclusive relation to repr...