Automated content analysis as a tool to compare content in sexual selection research with examples of sexual selection in evolutionary biology textbooks: implications for teaching the nature of science

Table 3 The top 10 most commonly occurring terms, and terms with which they co-occurred, in an overall analysis of literature about sexual selection in insects

	Concept	Relevance %	Count	Commonly co-occurred with (in order of frequency)
1	Male	100	6285	Success, female, copulation, calling
2	Selection	77	4860	Sexual, postcopulatory, biometrics, productivity
3	Female	76	4777	Re-mating, choice, fecundity, male
4	Sexual	76	4769	Dimorphism, conflict, selection, postcopulatory
5	Mating	67	4238	Success, pair, productivity, choice
6	Evolution	42	2628	Land, biometrics, zones, productivity
7	Reproduction	40	2486	Productivity, biometrics, land, zones
8	Behavior	34	2163	Productivity, communication, pair, land
9	Genes	27	1700	Phenotypic, variation, speciation, isolation
10	Traits	26	1647	Phenotypic, condition, divergence, genes

This table provides the top 10 most commonly occurring terms and the terms with which they co-occurred, sometimes described as a thesaurus in papers about Leximancer. See Appendix 1 for the 11th-64th commonly occurring terms

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