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 Research 169 8 Behavioral Influences on A / 208 9 A Classification of Mating Systems 262 10 A Darwinian Perspective on Alternative Mating Strategies 370 11 Sexual Selection and Alternative Mating Strategies 386 12 The Forms of ...
... mating systems and alternative mating strategies in natural populations . When we began our discussions on these topics in 1988 over coffee and M & Ms , we were struck by the explosive growth of verbal , evolutionary models " explaining ...
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