Sexual selection and the descent of man : the Darwinian pivot / Bernard G. Campbell, editor
- Published
- New Brunswick (U.S.A.) : AldineTransaction, 2006.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 378 pages)
- Additional Creators
- Campbell, Bernard Grant
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- Contents
- chapter EISELEY -- To assess the significance of The Descent of Man one hundred years / of Species was intended to be only an -- chapter It is to Darwin's credit that he -- To explain -- chapter 2 GEORGE GAYLORD SIMPSON -- It permeated all the -- chapter 3BERNARDCAMPBELL -- chapter 4 THEODOSIUS DOBZHANSKY -- -- chapter 5ERNST -- chapter EHRMAN -- chapter 0 rsJ -- of deaf people, he finds that the vast majority, 86 per -- chapter 7ROBERT TRIVERS Parental and -- chapter INITIAL PARENTAL INVESTMENT -- An important consequence of the early evolutionary differentation of the sex cells and subsequent sperm competition that male sex cells remain tiny compared to female sex cells, even when selection has favored a total male parental investment that equals or exceeds the female investment. The male's initial parental investment, that is, his investment at the mo- male can raise the young, either alone or with the help of others, it would be to the male's advantage to copulate with her. By this reasoning one would expect males of monogamous species to retain some psychological traits consistent with promiscuous habits. A male would be selected to dif- ferentiate between a female he will only impregnate and a female with -- part It is difficult to determine accurately the sex ratio for any species. The -- For example, in small mam- 1971). -- chapter HYPOTHESIS -- (or balanced) sex ratio, and (1964) has summarized other instances of this tendency. The only -- part SPECIESWITHAPPRECIABLE PARENTALINVESTMENT -- chapter male -- chapter 8ROBERTSELANder -- chapter CLASSIFICATION OF MATING SYSTEMS -- 8.3). The terms monogamy and polygamy carry the implica- -- chapter If factors other than the amount of food that can be sup- -- 1970), may set the clutch size so low 1970), red-winged blackbird ( Agelaius phoeniceus) ( Orians -- chapter If so, the evolution -- of group displays will follow, unless accompanied by increased danger from predators or by other disadvantages. The group can advertise itself much more continuously and effectively than can a lone bird, and, perhaps more importantly, the mutual stimulation among males results in bursts of display that are far more impressive than anything an individual can -- chapter It would seem that the central males are the more -- the function of threat is to display superiority to such a degree that a complete subordinance from the female's side eventually appears. -- chapter 9 JOHN HURRELL CROOK Sexual Selection, Dimorphism, and Social Organization in the Primates -- chapter ;. R -- chapter ERNSTCASPARI -- chapter It should be mentioned that these char- -- 9) and the sexual skin development in nonhuman Pri- (Table9.1).
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- ISBN
- 9781315129266 (e-book : PDF)
9781351491099 (e-book: Mobi)
9780202308456 (paperback)
9781138532472 (hardback) - Note
- Previously published: Chicago : Aldine Pub. Co., 1972.
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