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Competing explanations for this evolution fall into two broad categories: recombination arrest driven by the capture of sexually antagonistic variation vs. arrest driven without sex-specific selection. Using population genetic models, we compare the substitution rates of full recombination suppressors (such as inversions) driven by sexually antagonistic selection to those expected under neutrality. We consider both XY and ZW systems, mating ecologies ranging from random mating to polygyny with high male reproductive variance, suppressors arising on heterogametic (Y or W) vs. homogametic (X or Z) chromosomes, and the effects of deleterious alleles segregating at other loci on the chromosome. We find that even very weak sexual antagonism is sufficient to expedite the substitution of suppressors by orders of magnitude relative to neutrality. 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