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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Stephen M. Shuster, Michael J. Wade. Contents Preface vii The Opportunity for Selection 1 2 The Ecology of Sexual Selection 36 3 The Phenology of Sexual Selection 74 4 Multiple Matings and Postcopulatory , Prezygotic Sexual Selection 109 ...
... selection . We have attempted to make the fundamental relationships between the mean , vari- ance , and covariance ... opportunity for selection is the key to resolving the quantitative para- dox between microevolutionary process and ...
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 ...
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