Sexual Selection / / Malte Andersson.
Bright colors, enlarged fins, feather plumes, song, horns, antlers, and tusks are often highly sex dimorphic. Why have males in many animals evolved more conspicuous ornaments, signals, and weapons than females? How can such traits evolve although they may reduce male survival? Such questions prompt...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (624 p.) :; 10 halftones 110 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Theory of Sexual Selection
- 2. Genetic Models of Fisherian Self-Reinforcing Sexual Selection
- 3. Genetic Models of Indicator Mechanisms
- 4. Empirical Methods
- 5. Some Case Studies
- 6. Empirical Studies of Sexually Selected Traits: Patterns
- 7. Sexual Selection in Relation to Mating System and Parental Roles
- 8. Benefits of Mate Choice
- 9. Species Recognition, Sexual Selection, and Speciation
- 10. Constraints
- 11. Sexual Size Dimorphism
- 12. Weapons
- 13. Coloration and Other Visual Signals
- 14. Acoustic Signals
- 15. Chemical Signals
- 16. Alternative Mating Tactics
- 17. Sexual Selection in Plants
- 18. Sexual Selection: Conclusions and Open Questions
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Taxonomic Index