Current perspectives on sexual selection : what's left after Darwin? /: what's left after Darwin?. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Thierry Hoquet, editor.
• Editors: Hoquet, Thierry
• Contents: Opening Pandora's Boxes in Sexual Selection Research / Thierry Hoquet -- Section 1. In Darwin's footsteps: historical issues -- Chapter 1. Sexual Selection: Why does it Play such a Large Role in the Descent of Man? / Michael Ruse -- Chapter 2. Utility vs Beauty: The Darwin, Wallace and the Subsequent History of the Debate on Sexual Selection / Thierry Hoquet and Michael Levandowsky -- Chapter 3. Darwin on the proportion of the sexes and general fertility: discovery and rejection of sex-ratio evolution and density-dependent selection / Michel Veuille -- Chapter 4. Sexual selection in the French school of population genetics: Claudine Petit (1920-2007) / Jean Gayon -- Section 2. Current challenges -- Chapter 5. Sexual selection: is anything left? / Joan Roughgarden -- Chapter 6. Standing on Darwin's shoulders: the nature of selection hypotheses / Patricia Adair Gowaty -- Chapter 7. Sexual selection: the logical imperative / Tommaso Pizzari and Geoff. Parker -- Chapter 8. Selfish genetic elements and sexual selection / Nina Wedell and Tom A.R. Price -- Chapter 9. Preference, rationality and interindividual variation: the persisting debate about female choice / Frank Cézilly -- Chapter 10. Reaction norms of sex and adaptive individual flexibility in reproductive decisions / Malin Ah-King and Patricia Adair Gowaty -- Section 3. Prospects: Animal aesthetics? -- Chapter 11. The role of sexual autonomy in evolution by mate choice / Richard O. Prum -- Chapter 12. The riddle of attractiveness: looking for an 'Aesthetic sense' within the hedonic mind of the beholders / Michel Kreutzer and Verena Aebischer -- Chapter 13. Aesthetics and reinforcement: A behavioural approach to aesthetics / Shigeru Watanabe.
• Publisher Details: Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 576.8/55; Philosophy; Sexual selection; Natural selection; Evolution (Biology); Evolution (Biology); Sexual behavior; SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution; Evolution (Biology); Natural selection; Sexual selection; Psychology -- Human Sexuality; Evolution; Sexual behaviour; Philosophy -- Reference; Philosophy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789401795852; 9401795851
• Related ISBNs: 9789401795845; 9401795843; 9789401795845
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