Mating Systems and StrategiesThis book presents the first unified conceptual and statistical framework for understanding the evolution of reproductive strategies. Using the concept of the opportunity for sexual selection, the authors illustrate how and why sexual selection, though restricted to one sex and opposed in the other, is one of the strongest and fastest of all evolutionary forces. They offer a statistical framework for studying mating system evolution and apply it to patterns of alternative mating strategies. In doing so, they provide a method for quantifying how the strength of sexual selection is affected by the ecological and life history processes that influence females' spatial and temporal clustering and reproductive schedules. |
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Stephen M. Shuster, Michael J. Wade. Preface. We have written this book to provide a comparative, conceptual, and statistical framework for studying mating systems and alternative mating strategies in natural populations. When we began ...
Stephen M. Shuster, Michael J. Wade. ship between the exaggerated traits of males and the physical environment as he did for many other characters. Indeed, the “fit” between certain male phenotypes and the abiotic environment was ...
Stephen M. Shuster, Michael J. Wade. chosen at random, the total selection differential, averaged across the sexes, equals Smales/2 or, if we select on males as strongly as we did above, S/2. This makes single-sex selection weaker by ...
Stephen M. Shuster, Michael J. Wade. sion of the genes affecting tail length is diminished in the female sex and the trait can become sex-limited. Such modifiers can be viewed as genes that reduce the genetic correlation between a trait ...
Contents
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3 The Phenology of Sexual Selection | 74 |
4 Multiple Matings and Postcopulatory Prezygotic Sexual Selection ... | 109 |
5 Female Life History and Sexual Selection | 128 |
6 The I Surface | 154 |
7 Conceptual Difficulties in Mating System Research ... | 169 |
8 Behavioral Influences on I | 208 |
10 A Darwinian Perspective on Alternative Mating Strategies ... | 370 |
11 Sexual Selection and Alternative Mating Strategies ... | 386 |
12 The Forms of Alternative Mating Strategies | 423 |
References | 471 |
Author Index | 517 |
Word Index | 526 |
Taxonomic Index | 530 |
9 A Classification of Mating Systems | 262 |