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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Hoquet, Thierry (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Σειρά: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, 9
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Biology > Philosophy.; Evolutionary biology.; Sexual behavior.; Sexual psychology.; Philosophy of Biology.; Evolutionary Biology.; Sexual Behavior.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.