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Další autoři: Hoquet, Thierry (Editor)
Typ dokumentu: Kniha
Jazyk:Angličtina
Vydáno: Dordrecht : Springer, [2015]
Edice:History, philosophy and theory of the life sciences ; volume 9
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Obsah:
  • 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 and the Subsequent History of the Debate on 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.