Current Perspectives on Sexual Selection What's left after Darwin? /

This root-and-branch reevaluation of Darwin’s concept of sexual selection tackles the subject from historical, epistemological and theoretical perspectives. Contributions from a wealth of disciplines have been marshaled for this volume, with key figures in behavioural ecology, philosophy, and the hi...

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Other Authors: Hoquet, Thierry. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, 9
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9585-2
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505 0 |a Opening Pandora’s Boxes in Sexual Selection Research; Thierry Hoquet -- Section 1. In Darwin’s footsteps: historical issues -- Chapter 1. Sexual Selection: Why does it Play such a Large Role in the Descent of Man?; Michael Ruse -- Chapter 2. Utility vs Beauty: The Darwin/Wallace Debate as a Structuring Pattern in the History of Sexual Selection?; Thierry Hoquet and Michael Levandowsky -- Chapter 3. Darwin on the proportion of the sexes and general fertility: discovery and rejection of sex-ratio evolution and density-dependent selection; Michel Veuille -- Chapter 4. Sexual selection in the French school of population genetics: Claudine Petit (1920-2007); Jean Gayon -- Section 2. Current challenges --  Chapter 5. Sexual selection: is anything left?; Joan Roughgarden -- Chapter 6. Standing on Darwin’s shoulders: the nature of selection hypotheses; Patricia Adair Gowaty -- Chapter 7. Sexual selection: the logical imperative; Tommaso Pizzari and Geoff. Parker -- Chapter 8. Selfish genetic elements and sexual selection; Nina Wedell and Tom A.R. Price -- Chapter 9. Preference, rationality and interindividual variation: the persisting debate about female choice; Frank Cézilly -- Chapter 10. Reaction norms of sex and adaptive individual flexibility in reproductive decisions; Malin Ah-King and Patricia Adair Gowaty -- Section 3. Prospects: Animal aesthetics? -- Chapter 11. The role of sexual autonomy in evolution by mate choice; Richard O. Prum -- Chapter 12. The riddle of attractiveness: looking for an ‘Aesthetic sense’ within the hedonic mind of the beholders; Michel Kreutzer and Verena Aebischer -- Chapter 13. Aesthetics and reinforcement: A behavioural approach to aesthetics; Shigeru Watanabe. 
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