[count-your-change]

But sexual selection was supposedly part of survival of the fittest. The guy with small canines limped around gathering up groceries for mama and making wee beasties.

Or so the tale goes.

[NicknamedBob]

"But sexual selection was supposedly part of survival of the fittest."

It is. Among species where outright survival is fairly achievable, other normally less important criteria start having an effect.

This is how you get peacocks and bower birds.