Mate Choice: The Evolution of Sexual Decision Making from Microbes to Humans
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (738 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MTB05WC |
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| Number of Pages | : | 493 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Rosenthal is professor of biology and of ecology and evolutionary biology at Texas A&M University. He is codirector of the CICHAZ field station in central Mexico. . Gil G
He explains how mating decisions originate from structural constraints on perception and from nonsexual functions, and how single organisms benefit or lose from their choices. In Mate Choice, Gil Rosenthal overturns much of this conventional wisdom. Rosenthal broadens the traditional scope of mate choice research to encompass not just animal behavior and behavioral ecology but also neurobiology, the social sciences, and other areas.Focusing on mate choice mechanisms, rather than the traits they target, Mate Choice offers a groundbreaking perspective on the proximate and ultimate forces determining the evolutionary fate of species and populations.. Both the origin of species and their fusion through hybridization are strongly influenced by direct selection on preferences in sexual and nonsexual contexts. A major new look at the evolution of mating decisions in organisms from protozoans to humans The popular consensus on mate choice has long been that females select mates likely to pass good genes to offspring. Providing the first synthesis of the topic in more than three decades, and drawing from a wide range of fields, including animal behavior, evolutionary biolo
Prum, Yale University"Taking on the enormous field of mate choice, Gil Rosenthal reviews and curates research from neurobiology and endocrinology through psychology and evolutionary genetics to produce a towering work. Drawing on information from the fields of animal behavior, ecology, evolutionary genetics, and sensory physiology, it will be a source of information and inspiration for everyone interested in this fascinatingly complex topic."--Rosemary Grant, coauthor of 40 Years of Evolution: Darwin’s Finches on Daphne Major Island"At once encyclopedic, idiosyncratic, and illuminatinga wonderful book to dip into."--Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, coauthor of Conservation: Linking Ecology, Economics, and Culture"This book takes an interesting and substantial look at mate choice and will become a new refer