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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... mating system theory is based on parental investment theory (Trivers 1972), as well as on patterns of paternal care (Clutton-Brock 1994). We suggest that studies of mating ... male mating strategies. Darwin clearly recognized male ...
... 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 ...
... mating preferences for different kinds of males; i.e., they were more ... mating preferences were operating, then the traits of preferred males would become ... male acquires in his lifetime indicates the degree to which he is preferred ...
... male-male competition or female choice has two consequences: 1. the opportunity for selection in males exceeds the opportunity for selection in females, i.e., Imales Ifemales 0 ... male mating success in a OPPORTUNITY FOR SELECTION ▫ 23.
... males. In this case, R Nfemales 1 (Wade 1995). The average mating success per male, M, equals the number of females in the ki /Nmales th mating class, multiplied by the number of males in the mith class, added up over all i classes, and ...
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 |