Mate Choice (eBook)

The Evolution of Sexual Decision Making from Microbes to Humans

Gil Rosenthal (Autor)

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2017
648 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8546-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Gil G. Rosenthal is professor of biology and of ecology and evolutionary biology at Texas A&M University. He is codirector of the CICHAZ field station in central Mexico.

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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 "e;good genes"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.7.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 24 halftones. 99 line illus. 4 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Schlagworte: Allele • allopatric speciation • animal behavior • Animal Communication • antipathy • assay • Assortative Mating • attractiveness • Beauty • Behavior • Behavioral Ecology • biases • Biology • biotic community • Candidate Gene • Categorical Perception • character displacement • Charles Darwin • chooser • choosers • Cichlid • Coevolution • context-sensitive effects • copulation • courter • courters • courtship • Courtship display • Covariance • cryptic choice • Directional selection • direct selection • Disgust • divergence • Drosophila • ecological speciation • Ecology • environmental effects • epigenetics • estimation • Estrogen • estrous cycle • Evaluation • Evolution • Fecundity • female • Fertilisation • Fertilization • Fitness • Fitness (biology) • forward genetics • Gamete • Gene • gene expression • Gene Flow • Genetic architecture • genetic correlation • genetic exchange • Genetic Factors • genetic models • genetic variance • genetic variation • Genotype • good genes • Gouldian finch • Guppy • Heritability • hermaphrodites • heuristic rules • House sparrow • human mating preference • Human sexuality • Hybrid (biology) • Hybrid speciation • Imprinting (psychology) • insect • In Specie • Mammal • mate choice • mate preference • mate preferences • mate sampling • mate searching • Mate selection • mating • mating decision • mating outcomes • mating preference • mating preferences • Mating system • Meiotic drive • Meta-analysis • Modalities • mutual mate choice • Natural selection • Neurobiology • Nuptial gift • odor • organism • Pair bond • pairing decisions • perception • perceptual integration • Phenotype • Phenotypic trait • Pheromone • Physical Environment • Polymorphism (biology) • predation • Prediction • preference genetics • preference variations • Probability • Processing (Chinese materia medica) • Protein • quantitative trait locus • Quantity • reaction norm • Receptor (biochemistry) • repeatability • Reproduction • reproductive isolation • Reproductive success • Reproductive system • result • Reverse Genetics • selection • Sensation • sensory constraints • Sensory ecology • sensory modality • Sensory systems • Sex • sex organ • Sex Ratio • sexual conflict • Sexual Dimorphism • Sexual Selection • sibling • social effects • Social Influence • Social interactions • social mate • social promiscuity • Social Sciences • Speciation • Sperm • spermatophore • sperm competition • state-dependent preferences • Stimulation • Stimulus (physiology) • Swordtail • sympatry • Taxon • Trade-off • Uncanny Valley • Vertebrate • Westermarck Effect • Xiphophorus • zebra finch
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8546-9 / 1400885469
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8546-6 / 9781400885466