Looking for a few good males : female choice in evolutionary biology / Erika Lorraine Milam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milam, Erika Lorraine, 1974-

Series:

Animals, history, culture.

Animals, history, culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Courtship in animals.

Evolution (Biology).

Courtship in animals--Research--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rather, population geneticists, ethologists, and organismal biologists alike continued to investigate this important theory throughout the twentieth century.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; CHAPTER 1. Beauty and the Beast: Darwin, Wallace, and the Animal-Human Boundary; CHAPTER 2. Progressive Desire: Rational Evolution after the Great War; CHAPTER 3. Branching Out, Scaling Up: American Experiments on Behavior; CHAPTER 4. Courtly Behavior: The Rituals of British Zoologists; CHAPTER 5. A Science of Rare Males: The Genetics of Populations in the Long 1960's; CHAPTER 6. Selective History: Writing Female Choice into Organismal Biology; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Essay on Sources; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-9817-X

OCLC:

923194760