Titlebook: Current Perspectives on Sexual Selection; What‘s left after Da Thierry Hoquet Book 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 Anim

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Aesthetics and Reinforcement: A Behavioural Approach to Aesthetics cases, human art, in either the visual or the auditory dimension, has a reinforcing property for non-human animals, suggesting that human art has hedonic value for them. The process of art creation has its own reinforcing property, and artists create art for its own sake; in other words, art has fu

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Darwin on the Proportion of the Sexes and General Fertility: Discovery and Rejection of Sex Ratio Evon to this question: that of a reciprocal sexual choice between the most vigorous males and the most vigorous females. Darwin’s solution to sex ratio evolution was independently discovered in 1930 by Fisher, but it was not until 1984 that Darwin’s priority was acknowledged. I will show that Darwin’s

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Standing On Darwin’s Shoulders: The Nature of Selection Hypotheses about (1) heritable variation among the units of selection, (2) the environmental and/or social circumstances that (3) affect differential probabilities of survival and reproductive success of the units of selection. Selection is simple. For example, if traits of individuals are variable, if traits

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Reaction Norms of Sex and Adaptive Individual Flexibility in Reproductive Decisionsrgy of reproductive decision-making with diverse, usually unitary factors: predation risk or density or OSR, etc. Gowaty and Hubbell’s (2009) Switch-Point Theorem simplifies and unifies these trade-offs into a single hypothesis and works as an integrative framework, both for reinterpreting earlier f

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The Role of Sexual Autonomy in Evolution by Mate Choiceesthetic preferences. I review two distinct examples of this phenomenon—antagonistic genital coevolution in waterfowl (.) and the evolution of bowerbird (.) architecture—both of which protect females from sexual coercion. Waterfowl vaginal complexity evolves as a mechanism of resistance to protect f

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The Riddle of Attractiveness: Looking for an ‘Aesthetic Sense’ Within the Hedonic Mind of the Beholdcause they happen to fit an already existing bias in the female sensory system. Such a sensory exploitation determines the direction of a “runaway process”..Today, the “aesthetic sense” is back, the neurosciences study the chemistry and circuitry that support pleasure in the brains of humans and ani