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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... relationships between the mean, variance, and covariance of male and female reproductive selection explicit and thereby establish a more solid theoretical foundation for future studies on mating systems and strategies. In chapter 1, we ...
... relationship to viability or reproductive fitness. Despite very similar ways of life, closely related species could have males with very different phenotypes. Why should male tail length in one species be greatly elongated while, in ...
... relationship between the variance in male fitness and the variance in female fitness,. Figure 1.7. Stag beetles in combat, Lucanus cervus (from Price 1997). Figure 1.8. Sexual dimorphism in Gnathocerus cornutus; male (right) with. 14 ...
... relationship to the strength of selection and, second, the sex difference in variation of fitness between males and females. We are interested in this variation in fitness not only because fitness variance is required for selection, but ...
... relationship between the variance in fitness, VW and the covariance between phenotype and fitness, Cov(z,w[z]). To understand this relationship, we first must recognize that the ratio Cov(z,w[z])/ (VZ Vw)1/2 is the product moment ...
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 |