Male Choice, Female Competition, and Female Ornaments in Sexual Selection
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 31 May 2021
- ISBN 9780198818946
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages176 pages
- Size 254x195x9 mm
- Weight 550 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 35 colour line figures and illustrations 92
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Short description:
This novel text reviews our current understanding of male mate choice and female competition, highlighting the important connections between them. It places both concepts in the context of related fields such as female choice, mating systems, and sexual selection theory more broadly.
MoreLong description:
When Charles Darwin first proposed Sexual Selection Theory, he suggested two mechanisms: competition among males and choice by females. Although their importance is long established and extremely well understood, their mirror images have remained largely underappreciated; males also choose, and females also compete. The combination of male mate choice (MMC) and female competition (FC) may be one of the most overlooked yet important and intriguing phenomena in modern sexual selection theory.
This novel text reviews our current understanding of MMC and FC, highlighting the important connections between them. It places both concepts in the context of related fields such as female choice, mating systems, and sexual selection theory more broadly. A truly holistic approach is provided which takes all the relevant elements into consideration, especially the relative roles of MMC and FC, female ornamentation, their evolutionary consequences, and their genetic basis. Considering male mate choice and female competition in this way as effectively two sides of the same coin creates a powerful paradigm for a more complete understanding of sexual selection.
Male Choice, Female Competition, and Female Ornaments in Sexual Selection will be suitable for both graduate students and researchers interested in sexual selection from an evolutionary, psychological, and anthropological perspective. It will also appeal to a broader audience of behavioural ecologists and evolutionary psychologists.
This lively and engaging book does a great job in summarizing the field. The first two chapters in particular are among the clearest, most cogent descriptions of modern sexual selection theory wrapped up in a few pages that I have come across. This alone will make this book required reading for all students joining my lab in the future.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Sexual Selection, Mate Choice, and Competition for Mates
Female and Male Mate Choice: Similarities and Differences
Examples of Male Mate Choice
What Males Choose: Differences in Female Quality
Male Investment and Male Choice
Mechanism of Male Choice: Sex Ratios
Ornaments in Females
Female-Female Competition
Synthesis and Outlook
Glossary
