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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... Selection The Ecology of Sexual Selection 1 The Phenology of Sexual Selection Multiple Matings and Postcopulatory, Prezygotic Sexual Selection Female Life History and Sexual Selection The ΔI Surface Conceptual Difficulties in Mating ...
... sexual selection. We have attempted to make the fundamental relationships between the mean, variance, and covariance of male and female reproductive ... sexual selection. We show how the opportunity for sexual selection, caused Preface.
Stephen M. Shuster, Michael J. Wade. ual selection. We show how the opportunity for sexual selection, caused by the spatial and temporal clustering of female receptivity, is related to the ecological concept of mean crowding (sensu Lloyd ...
... 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 central questions of sexual selection ( ...
... 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 reason for sexual selection to be a ...
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 |