| 书目名称 | Current Perspectives on Sexual Selection |
| 副标题 | What‘s left after Da |
| 编辑 | Thierry Hoquet |
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| 概述 | Comprehensive overview of the history of sexual selection from Darwin to today.Presents current debates about the relevance of sexual selection in behavioral ecology.Includes special sections on socia |
| 丛书名称 | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences |
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| 描述 | .This root-and-branch re-evaluation 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 history of science adding to its wide-ranging relevance. Updating the reader on the debate currently live in behavioural ecology itself on the centrality of sexual selection, and with coverage of developments in the field of animal aesthetics, the book details the current state of play, while other chapters trace the history of sexual selection from Darwin to today and inquire into the neurobiological bases for partner choices and the comparisons between the hedonic brain in human and non-human animals..Welcome space is given to the social aspects of sexual selection, particularly where Darwin drew distinctions between eager males and coy females and rationalized this as evolutionarystrategy. Also explored are the current definition of sexual selection (as opposed to natural selection) and its importance in today’s biological research, and the impending critique of the theory from the na |
| 出版日期 | Book 2015 |
| 关键词 | Animal Aesthetics; Bateman Paradigm; Behavioural ecology; Darwin Descent of man; Darwin and Wilson; Epist |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9585-2 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-94-017-7990-6 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-94-017-9585-2Series ISSN 2211-1948 Series E-ISSN 2211-1956 |
| issn_series | 2211-1948 |
| copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 |
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