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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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2015.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2015. |
| Series: | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9585-2 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.