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Mate choice / edited by Patrick Bateson.
LIBRA QL761 .M368 1983
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Courtship in animals--Congresses.
- Courtship in animals.
- Sexual selection in animals--Congresses.
- Sexual selection in animals.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 462 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983.
- Summary:
- Animals may be careful in their choice of mates for a variety of reasons. The ideal mate may have to hold valuable resources as well as being highly fertile or fecund. As likely as not, it should be neither too closely related nor too distantly related, and it should be maximally attractive. All these aspects of a member of the opposite sex may influence how many descendants the pair could produce, but the importance of each will usually depend on the sex and the species of the individual making the choice. This book brings together modern thinking on the various functions of mate choice and its role in evolution.
- Contents:
- 1 The study of mate choice / T.R.Halliday 3
- 2 Monogamy: an ambiguous concept / Wolfgang Wickler, Uta Seibt 33
- II Characteristics of sexual selection
- 3 Sexual selection by female choice / Peter O'Donald 53
- 4 Sexual selection: the interface of theory and empiricism / Stevan J. Arnold 67
- 5 Leks and mate choice / Jack W. Bradbury, Robert M. Gibson 109
- III Sex differences in choosiness
- 6 Mate quality and mating decisions / G. A. Parker 141
- 7 Mate choice in role-reversed species / Marion Petrie 167
- 8 Male-male competition and mate choice in anuran amphibians / Anthony Arak 181
- 9 Mate choice in the European Rabbit / Diana J. Bell 211
- IV Non-random mating
- 10 Non-random mating and offspring fitness / Linda Partridge 227
- 11 Optimal outbreeding / Patrick Bateson 257
- 12 Assortative mating, mate choice and reproductive fitness in Snow Geese / F. Cooke, J. C. Davies 279
- 13 Mate choice in the Mallard / Diane M. Williams 297
- 14 Early experience and sexual preferences in rodents / Bruno D'Udine, Enrico Alleva 311
- V Compatibility of mates
- 15 Re-mating in birds / Ian Rowley 331
- 16 Mate choice in the Kittiwake Gull / J. C. Coulson, C. S. Thomas 361
- 17 Mate choice in humans as an interpersonal process / Steve Duck, Dorothy Miell 377
- VI Hormonal mechanisms
- 18 Hormonal mechanisms of mate choice in birds / J. B. Hutchison, R. E. Hutchison 389
- 19 Endocrine determinants and constraints on sexual behaviour in monkeys / Eric B. Keverne 407
- VII Decision rules
- 20 Life history tactics and alternative strategies of reproduction / R. I. M. Dunbar 423
- 21 Tactics of mate choice / James F. Wittenberger 435.
- Notes:
- Based on a conference held by the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour in Cambridge in July 1981.
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521251125
- 0521272076
- OCLC:
- 8709418
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