Title Mate choice : the evolution of sexual decision making from microbes to humans / Gil G. Rosenthal

Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 632 pages) Contents Part I. Mechanisms -- Mate choice and mating preferences: an overview -- Measuring preferences and choices -- The first steps in mate choice: preference functions and sensory transduction -- Beyond the periphery: perception, cognition, and multivariate preferences -- Aesthetics and evaluation in mate choice -- From preferences to choices: mate sampling and mating decisions -- Mate choice during and after mating -- Mutual mate choice -- Variation in preferences and choices: general considerations -- Variation I: genetics -- Variation II: biotic and abiotic environment -- Variation II: social environment and epigenetics -- Part 2. Origins, evolution, and consequences -- Origins and histories of mating preferences: chooser biases -- Selection on mate choice and mating preferences -- Dynamic evolution of preferences, strategies, and traits -- Mate choice, speciation, and hybridization -- Mate choice and human exceptionalism -- Conclusions: a mate-choice view of the world Summary "The popular consensus on mate choice has long been that females select mates likely to pass good genes to offspring. In Mate Choice, Gil Rosenthal overturns much of this conventional wisdom. Providing the first synthesis of the topic in more than three decades, and drawing from a wide range of fields, including animal behavior, evolutionary biology, social psychology, neuroscience, and economics, Rosenthal argues that 'good genes' play a relatively minor role in shaping mate choice decisions and demonstrates how mate choice is influenced by genetic factors, environmental effects, and social interactions. Looking at diverse organisms, from protozoans to humans, Rosenthal explores how factors beyond the hunt for good genes combine to produce an endless array of preferences among species and individuals. 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. Both the origin of species and their fusion through hybridization are strongly influenced by direct selection on preferences in sexual and nonsexual contexts. 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"--Provided by publisher's website Analysis animal behavior animal communication antipathy beauty behavioral ecology biases biology biotic community categorical perception chooser choosers context-sensitive effects courter courters covariance cryptic choice direct selection divergence environmental effects epigenetics evaluation fertilization fitness forward genetics genetic exchange genetic factors genetic models good genes hermaphrodites heuristic rules human mating preference human sexuality mate choice mate preference mate preferences mate sampling mate searching mate selection mating decision mating outcomes mating preference mating preferences mating modalities mutual mate choice neurobiology pairing decisions perception perceptual integration physical environment preference genetics preference variations repeatability reverse genetics selection sensation sensory constraints sensory ecology sensory modality sensory systems sexual selection social effects social influence social interactions social mate social promiscuity social sciences speciation state-dependent preferences Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-616) and indexes Notes In English Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 21, 2017) Subject Sexual selection in animals. Courtship in animals. Mate selection. Mating Preference, Animal FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- General. SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution. Courtship in animals Mate selection Sexual selection in animals Form Electronic book LC no. 2017940516 ISBN 9781400885466 1400885469 0691150672 9780691150673

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