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Odd Couples : Extraordinary Differences between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom /
While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of other animals. For instance: the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating with a female more than fifty times his size. Female cichlids must guard their eggs and larvae--eve...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
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2013.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; CHAPTER 1: Introduction; CHAPTER 2: The Roots of Sexual Differences: Why Male and Female Animals Differ; CHAPTER 3: Elephant Seals: Harems, Hierarchies, and Giant Males; CHAPTER 4: Great Bustards: Gorgeous Males and Choosy Females; CHAPTER 5: Shell-Carrying Cichlids: Protective Males and Furtive Females; CHAPTER 6: Yellow Garden Spiders: Sedentary Females and Roving Males; CHAPTER 7: Blanket Octopuses: Drifting Females and Dwarf Males; CHAPTER 8: Giant Seadevils: Fearsome Females and Parasitic Males. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a CHAPTER 9: Bone-Eating Worms: Female Tubeworms with Harems of Minuscule MalesCHAPTER 10: Shell-Burrowing Barnacles: Sac-Like Females with Harems of Phallic Males; CHAPTER 11: The Diversity of Sexual Differences: Differences between Males and Females across the Animal Kingdom; CHAPTER 12: Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgments; Appendix A: Scientific Names Corresponding to Common Names Used in the Text; Appendix B: Summary of Sexual Dimorphisms; Notes; Glossary of Technical Terms; Sources; Illustration Credits; Index. | |
| 520 | |a While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of other animals. For instance: the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating with a female more than fifty times his size. Female cichlids must guard their eggs and larvae--even from the hungry appetites of their own partners. And male blanket octopuses employ a copulatory arm longer than their own bodies to mate with females that outweigh them by four orders of magnitude. Why do these gender gulfs exist? Introducing readers to important discoveries in animal behavior and e. | ||
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| 650 | 6 | |a Dimorphisme sexuel chez les animaux. | |
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