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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... female reproductive behavior, many unconstrained by the principles of ... receptivity as well as female reproductive life history are fundamental to ... sexual selection. We show how the opportunity for sexual selection, caused Preface.
... sexual selection, caused by the spatial and temporal clustering of female receptivity, is related to the ecological concept of mean crowding (sensu Lloyd 1967) applied directly to the spatial and temporal aggregation of receptive females.
... female receptivity with female reproductive life histories to examine their aggregate effects on the opportunity for sexual selection. We generate specific predictions about the occurrence of sperm competition, mate guarding, sexual ...
... sexual selection are sex-limited, but also that conflict exists in the direction of ... female sex and in the male sex at earlier life stages. In subsequent ... receptivity in their effects on Imates. 2 The Ecology of Sexual Selection We ...
... female receptivity could be used to classify mating systems. Emlen and Oring (1977) argued convincingly that the ecology of female reproduction determines the degree to which males are successful in reproductively monopolizing females ...
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 |