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Sexual Selection and Animal Genitalia / William G. Eberhard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eberhard, William G., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Generative organs, Male.
- Sexual selection in animals.
- SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution.
- Local Subjects:
- Generative organs, Male.
- SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution.
- Sexual selection in animals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.): Zahlr. Abb.
- Edition:
- Reprint 2013
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- 1 An introduction to the problem
- 2 Previous hypotheses: their status to date
- 3 Tests of the lock and key and genitalic recognition hypotheses
- 4 Tests of the other hypotheses and a summary
- 5 Sexual selection by female choice
- 6 Male-male genitalic competition
- 7 Female discretion after genitalic contact
- 8 Remating by females
- 9 Apparent contradictions of the female choice hypothesis
- 10 Use of genitalia as stimulators
- 11 Specialized nongenitalic male structures
- 12 Conclusions and an overview
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-33070-6
- OCLC:
- 1013955243
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