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Mate choice : the evolution of sexual decision making from microbes 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Mechanisms
- Mate choice and mating preferences: an overview
- Measuring preferences and choices
- The first steps in mate choice: preference functions and sensory transduction
- Beyond the periphery: perception, cognition, and multivariate preferences
- Aesthetics and evaluation in mate choice
- From preferences to choices: mate sampling and mating decisions
- Mate choice during and after mating
- Mutual mate choice
- Variation in preferences and choices: general considerations
- Variation I: genetics
- Variation II: biotic and abiotic environment
- Variation II: social environment and epigenetics
- Part 2. Origins, evolution, and consequences
- Origins and histories of mating preferences: chooser biases
- Selection on mate choice and mating preferences
- Dynamic evolution of preferences, strategies, and traits
- Mate choice, speciation, and hybridization
- Mate choice and human exceptionalism
- Conclusions: a mate-choice view of the world.