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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... sex difference in the opportunity for selection is the key to resolving the quantitative paradox between microevolutionary process and macroevolutionary pattern. We illustrate how and why sexual selection, although restricted to one sex ...
... differences have been mainly caused by sexual selection.” —(Darwin 1859, p. 89). Sexual. Selection. and. the. Sex. Difference. in. Variance. of. Reproductive. Success. Darwin recognized two patterns in nature and used them to frame the ...
... sex selection. This contrast between macroscopic pattern and ... sexual selection, however, the selection differential in females is not zero, but actually ... difference in the direction of selection, as occurs with sexually selected ...
... sex difference in the direction of selection. However, the evolution of such modifier genes takes time, so the rate of evolutionary response for genes with initial phenotypic expression in both sexes is slowed. There is an additional ...
... sex difference in the variance in fitness. It is this sex difference in fitness variance that is fundamental to resolving the Quantitative Paradox of sexual selection. The. Strength. of. Sexual. Selection. Relative. to. Natural. Selection ...
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 |