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Mate choice : the evolution of sexual decision making from microbes to humans / Gil G. Rosenthal.
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Rosenthal, Gil Guastoni, 1971-
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English
Published/Created
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
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xiv, 632 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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QL761 .R677 2017
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Sexual selection in animals
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Courtship in animals
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Summary note
"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"--Provided by publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-616) and indexes.
Contents
Part I. Mechanisms
Mate choice and mating preferences: an overview
Measuring preferences and choices
The first steps in mate choice: preference functions and sensory transduction
Beyond the periphery: perception, cognition, and multivariate preferences
Aesthetics and evaluation in mate choice
From preferences to choices: mate sampling and mating decisions
Mate choice during and after mating
Mutual mate choice
Variation in preferences and choices: general considerations
Variation I: genetics
Variation II: biotic and abiotic environment
Variation II: social environment and epigenetics
Part 2. Origins, evolution, and consequences
Origins and histories of mating preferences: chooser biases
Selection on mate choice and mating preferences
Dynamic evolution of preferences, strategies, and traits
Mate choice, speciation, and hybridization
Mate choice and human exceptionalism
Conclusions: a mate-choice view of the world.
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ISBN
9780691150673
0691150672
LCCN
2017940516
OCLC
962353925
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