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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... environment, replete with chocolate, caffeine, and gentle but unmistakable encouragement. We also thank the members of our respective laboratories and discussion groups, whose comments and criticisms of earlier drafts of this book ...
... Furthermore, if these traits were adaptive for males, why were they not also adaptive for females? Darwin saw no obvious functional relationship between the exaggerated traits of males and the physical environment. 2 ▫ CHAPTER 1.
... environment as he did for many other characters. Indeed, the “fit” between certain male phenotypes and the abiotic environment was exceptionally poor; exaggerated male characters might actually lower male viability. The ...
... environmental factors influence the expression of characters. The more the environment influences variation in phenotypic expression, the smaller heritability will be (Falconer and Mackay 1996). Thus, the variance in relative fitness ...
... environmental components. They are not unique to Imates nor are they necessarily larger for mate numbers than for ... environments for tail development. As stated above, only the heritable fraction of the differences between selected and ...
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 |