Mate Choice : The Evolution of Sexual Decision Making from Microbes to Humans / Gil Rosenthal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenthal, Gil, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mate selection.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (632 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A major new look at the evolution of mating decisions in organisms from protozoans 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 fields, including animal behavior, evolutionary biology, social psychology, neuroscience, and economics, Rosenthal argues that "good genes" play a relatively minor role in shaping mate choice decisions and demonstrates how mate choice is influenced by genetic factors, environmental effects, and social interactions.Looking at diverse organisms, from protozoans to humans, Rosenthal explores how factors beyond the hunt for good genes combine to produce an endless array of preferences among species and individuals. He explains how mating decisions originate from structural constraints on perception and from nonsexual functions, and how single organisms benefit or lose from their choices. Both the origin of species and their fusion through hybridization are strongly influenced by direct selection on preferences in sexual and nonsexual contexts. Rosenthal broadens the traditional scope of mate choice research to encompass not just animal behavior and behavioral ecology but also neurobiology, the social sciences, and other areas.Focusing on mate choice mechanisms, rather than the traits they target, Mate Choice offers a groundbreaking perspective on the proximate and ultimate forces determining the evolutionary fate of species and populations.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

PART 1. MECHANISMS

Chapter 1. Mate Choice and Mating Preferences

Chapter 2. Measuring Preferences and Choices

Chapter 3. The First Steps in Mate Choice

Chapter 4. Beyond the Periphery

Chapter 5. Aesthetics and Evaluation in Mate Choice

Chapter 6. From Preferences to Choices

Chapter 7. Mate Choice During and After Mating

Chapter 8. Mutual Mate Choice

Chapter 9. Variation in Preferences and Choices: General Considerations

Chapter 10. Variation I: Genetics

Chapter 11. Variation II

Chapter 12. Variation III: Social Environment and Epigenetics

PART 2. ORIGINS, EVOLUTION, AND CONSEQUENCES

Chapter 13. Origins and Histories of Mating Preferences: Chooser Biases

Chapter 14. Selection on Mate Choice and Mating Preferences

Chapter 15. Dynamic Evolution of Preferences, Strategies, and Traits

Chapter 16. Mate Choice, Speciation, and Hybridization

Chapter 17. Mate Choice and Human Exceptionalism

Chapter 18. Conclusions: A Mate- Choice View of the World

GLOSSARY

LITERATURE CITED

SUBJECT INDEX

TAXONOMIC INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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ISBN:

9781400885466

1400885469

OCLC:

984666074