Mate Choice : : The Evolution of Sexual Decision Making from Microbes to Humans / / Gil Rosenthal.
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 fi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (648 p.) :; 24 halftones. 99 line illus. 4 tables. |
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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