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> either the male is dead before he finish reproducing with the female or at least, he is not able to reproduce with other females

In addition to the sibling comment's caveats, it's worth mentioning that the latter might actually be an advantage? If the male is able to continue reproducing with an unbounded number of females, and the females are limited by how often they can lay eggs (or how quickly they can after copulation), a mutation that causes females to prevent males from reproducing with other females could potentially drown out the ability of females without those mutations to reproduce (e.g. if those females were able to copulate with most males first, they'd be the only ones to produce offspring, and there could even be other adaptions or mutations that aid them in the "first to copulate" race).



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