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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... greater insights into how and when sexual selection operates and the mating systems and strategies that develop as a result. In chapter 8 we describe the behaviors of males and females most likely to influence mating system evolution ...
... greater differences in morphology and behavior than the females of closely related species? The first pattern is a microevolutionary one, seen commonly within species of almost all taxa with separate sexes, including plants. It ...
... greater mortality than females. Indeed, many believe that lack of strong predation pressure probably facilitated the evolution of ground display habits by some birds of paradise as well as bower building by all bowerbirds (S. Pruett ...
... greater than zero indicates that the trait enhances this component of fitness and is favored by selection while a negative selection differential ( 0) indicates the opposite. The. Mechanisms. of. Sexual. Selection. Darwin proposed sexual ...
... greater mating success than less ornamented males: (1) male-male competition for mates, and (2) female choice of mates. Male-Male. Competition. for. Mates. By male-male competition for mates, Darwin meant those cases in which males ...
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 |