Mate Choice : : The Evolution of Sexual Decision Making from Microbes to Humans / / Gil Rosenthal.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Rosenthal, Gil,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (648 p.) :; 24 halftones. 99 line illus. 4 tables.

A major new look at the evolution of mating decisions in organisms from protozoans to humans The popular consensus on mate choice has long been that females select mates likely to pass good genes to offspring. In Mate Choice, Gil Rosenthal overturns much of this conventional wisdom. Providing the first synthesis of the topic in more than three decades, and drawing from a wide range of fields, including animal behavior, evolutionary biology, social psychology, neuroscience, and economics, Rosenthal argues that "good genes" play a relatively minor role in shaping mate choice decisions and demonstrates how mate choice is influenced by genetic factors, environmental effects, and social interactions.Looking at diverse organisms, from protozoans to humans, Rosenthal explores how factors beyond the hunt for good genes combine to produce an endless array of preferences among species and individuals. He explains how mating decisions originate from structural constraints on perception and from nonsexual functions, and how single organisms benefit or lose from their choices. Both the origin of species and their fusion through hybridization are strongly influenced by direct selection on preferences in sexual and nonsexual contexts. Rosenthal broadens the traditional scope of mate choice research to encompass not just animal behavior and behavioral ecology but also neurobiology, the social sciences, and other areas.Focusing on mate choice mechanisms, rather than the traits they target, Mate Choice offers a groundbreaking perspective on the proximate and ultimate forces determining the evolutionary fate of species and populations.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PART 1. MECHANISMS -- Chapter 1. Mate Choice and Mating Preferences -- Chapter 2. Measuring Preferences and Choices -- Chapter 3. The First Steps in Mate Choice -- Chapter 4. Beyond the Periphery -- Chapter 5. Aesthetics and Evaluation in Mate Choice -- Chapter 6. From Preferences to Choices -- Chapter 7. Mate Choice During and After Mating -- Chapter 8. Mutual Mate Choice -- Chapter 9. Variation in Preferences and Choices: General Considerations -- Chapter 10. Variation I: Genetics -- Chapter 11. Variation II -- Chapter 12. Variation III: Social Environment and Epigenetics -- PART 2. ORIGINS, EVOLUTION, AND CONSEQUENCES -- Chapter 13. Origins and Histories of Mating Preferences: Chooser Biases -- Chapter 14. Selection on Mate Choice and Mating Preferences -- Chapter 15. Dynamic Evolution of Preferences, Strategies, and Traits -- Chapter 16. Mate Choice, Speciation, and Hybridization -- Chapter 17. Mate Choice and Human Exceptionalism -- Chapter 18. Conclusions: A Mate- Choice View of the World -- GLOSSARY -- LITERATURE CITED -- SUBJECT INDEX -- TAXONOMIC INDEX