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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... all bowerbirds (S. Pruett-Jones, pers. comm.). In summary, there is an apparent conflict between the microevolutionary perspective on sexual selection and the macroevolutionary pattern. Whereas ... et al. 1998). The evolution 10 ▫ CHAPTER 1.
... et al. 1998). The evolution of one trait can be limited by opposing natural selection on other genetically correlated traits. Although Darwin provided two mechanisms (see below) that permit us to understand how sexual selection operates ...
... et al. 1982; Emlen 1996). In these species, males, but not females, develop a sexual ornament and intrasexual weapon, antlers, just prior to the breeding season. During the mating season, males establish territories and engage in ...
... et al. 1994; Howard 1999). Female. Choice. of. Mates. All sex differences in phenotype cannot be explained by male-male competition alone. In many species, males differ from females in the extreme development of traits that appear to have ...
... All of the opportunities for selection in table 1.3 or eq. [1.23] will have random or environmental components. They ... et al. (1987) raised four arguments against the use of the measure I to examine selection. Their first criticism is ...
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 |