If the male frog could manage not to go through this freezing cycle, he'd probably have more success in mating.

如果雄蛙能够设法不经历这样的冻结周期就更可能交配成功。

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"In theory, women should be more choosy than men in mating decisions because they don't have the opportunity to reproduce as much," says Lass-Hennemann.

“理论上，女性在选择配偶时比男性更挑剔，因为她们根本没有使自己的基因传递下去的机会，”拉斯-亨内曼说。

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Since there is a strong correlation between these variables and a country's wealth, they controlled for GNP per head by measuring whether it alone accounted for the difference in mating strategy.

由于这些指标与一个国家的财富密切相关，他们以人均国民生产总值为控制变量来看它是否能够单独解释择偶策略的差别。

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Perhaps we are in the very early stages in the mating dance between MMR and Chevron.

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Now, she added, the post-proposal time period is considered its own step in the mating process.

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Of course, it is a long stretch from showing equal success in a laboratory game to showing it in the mating game that determines evolutionary outcomes.

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