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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... females at resources. However, the trade-off between mate guarding and mate seeking by males can bring this runaway to a halt without increased male mortality. Similarly, we show that a temporal runaway process can favor reproductive ...
... males could achieve a 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 ...
... female birds, by selecting, during thousands of generations, the most melodious or beautiful males, according to ... male traits evolved. Questions about the existence of female choice, as well as how and why it operates on males ...
... male mating success around (3)2(6) the average (4)2(2) widens. (5)2(0) That ... female, the larger the variance (3)2(4) in mating success (4)2(2) becomes ... male loses in competition with other males for mates, then he has a reproductive ...
... female distribution and some males with a fitness much, much higher than the ... male, R, is the total number of reproducing females, Nfemales, divided by ... male. In many other discussions, the sex ratio is expressed as the reciprocal ...
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 |