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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... exist for many exaggerated male traits. It is often hypothesized that exaggerated male traits lower male viability by making males more conspicuous to predators (e.g., bird territorial calls, plumage, and displays) or by imposing high ...
... equal), as though the other study did not exist, a scenario depressingly typical of microevolutionary studies. Neither study can claim to know the adaptive significance of body size for several reasons 32 ▫ CHAPTER 1.
... exist between populations. This criticism arises from a lack of understanding of how I is defined and what it measures, and the further confusion of I with analysis of variance. In evolutionary theory, natural selection on a trait ...
... exist against which a given value of I may be compared. Although several values have been published since 1979 (Wade 1979; Wade and Arnold 1980; Fincke 1986; in Clutton-Brock 1988; Yezerinac et al. 1995; Dinsmore 1985; Rajanikumari et ...
... exists within the group of males that successfully defend a patch of resources and mate with females aggregating there, and (2) the variance in the average mating success that exists between mating and nonmating males. As in ANOVA, we ...
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 |