Sexual Selection (eBook)

Malte Andersson (Autor)

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2019
624 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20727-8 (ISBN)

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Bright colors, enlarged fins, feather plumes, song, horns, antlers, and tusks are often highly sex dimorphic. Why have males in many animals evolved more conspicuous ornaments, signals, and weapons than females? How can such traits evolve although they may reduce male survival? Such questions prompted Darwin's perhaps most scientifically controversial idea--the theory of sexual selection. It still challenges researchers today as they try to understand how competition for mates can favor the variety of sex-dimorphic traits. Reviewing theoretical and empirical work in this very active field, Malte Andersson, a leading contributor himself, provides a major up-to-date synthesis of sexual selection. The author describes the theory and its recent development; examines models, methods, and empirical tests; and identifies many unsolved problems. Among the topics discussed are the selection and evolution of mating preferences; relations between sexual selection and speciation; constraints on sexual selection; and sex differences in signals, body size, and weapons. The rapidly growing study of sexual selection in plants is also reviewed. This volume will interest students, teachers, and researchers in behavioral ecology and evolutionary biology.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.12.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
• Zusatzinfo: 10 halftones 110 line illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Schlagworte: Adaptation and Natural Selection • allopatric speciation • Allosome • Alpha (ethology) • Amplexus • Assortative Mating • bird • Blattodea • character displacement • Charles Darwin • Chironomus • Coevolution • copulation • courtship • Dioecy • Directional selection • disruptive selection • dominance hierarchy • ecological speciation • Evolution of sexual reproduction • Extra-pair copulation • Fecundity • female • Fisherian runaway • fluctuating asymmetry • Gamete • Genetic divergence • gonad • group selection • Hair-pencil • Handicap principle • Heritability • Hermaphrodite • Heterogametic sex • Heterozygote advantage • Honeyguide • Hybrid (biology) • Inbreeding • inbreeding avoidance • Intragenomic conflict • kin selection • Lek mating • Local adaptation • mate choice • mating • mating call • Mating plug • Mating type • Mendelian Inheritance • Natural selection • Niche differentiation • Nuptial flight • observational study • Operational sex ratio • Ornithology • Outbreeding depression • outcrossing • Oviparity • Pair bond • Parapatric speciation • parasitism • Parental investment • Paternal care • Pheromone • Poecilia • Polygene • Polygyny threshold model • Polymorphism (biology) • Population cycle • predation • Quantitative genetics • reproductive isolation • Reproductive success • Reproductive system • Reproductive value (population genetics) • Scramble competition • Secondary sex characteristic • Selection coefficient • selfing • Sex • Sex allocation • Sex Change • Sex link • Sex Ratio • sexual conflict • sexual differentiation • Sexual Dimorphism • Sexual Selection • Sexy son hypothesis • Speciation • Sperm • spermatophore • Spermatophylax • sperm competition • Supernormal stimulus • sympatry • The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex • Urosaurus ornatus • western honey bee • Zygote
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20727-5 / 0691207275
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20727-8 / 9780691207278