Dana has been a bartender at the Study Hall bar for ten years. She notices that as the number of women in the bar increases relative to the number of males, there is a tendency for the males to be less generous with their tips and more unfriendly when interacting with her and the other women. Based on the process of ________, such variation in the expression of generosity and friendliness seems to be based on the males feeling that such traits are not that important when there are many more women than men at the bar.

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Frequency-dependent selection is a process where the fitness of a phenotype depends on its frequency relative to other phenotypes in a given population. In this context, the males' behavior changes based on the relative number of women, suggesting their behavior is influenced by the frequency of women present.

Dana Has Been a Bartender at the Study Hall Bar