Автор: Weill, Cheryl L. Название: Nature`s Choice ISBN: 0789034751 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780789034755 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 4898.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Milam Erika Lorraine Название: Looking for a Few Good Males ISBN: 1421404028 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781421404028 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 7644.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Rather, population geneticists, ethologists, and organismal biologists alike continued to investigate this important theory throughout the twentieth century.
A major new look at the evolution of mating decisions in organisms from protozoans to humans
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.
Focusing on mate choice mechanisms, rather than the traits they target, Mate Choice offers a groundbreaking perspective on the proximate and ultimate forces determining the evolutionary fate of species and populations.
Автор: Menelaos Apostolou Название: Sexual Selection in Homo sapiens ISBN: 3319589989 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319589985 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 19564.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The present book aims to examine how sexual selection works in the human species.
Автор: Alexander, David E. (department Of Ecology And Evo Название: Nature`s machines ISBN: 0128044047 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780128044049 Издательство: Elsevier Science Рейтинг: Цена: 6729.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Nature’s Machines: An Introduction to Organismal Biomechanics presents the fundamental principles of biomechanics in a concise, accessible way while maintaining necessary rigor. It covers the central principles of whole-organism biomechanics as they apply across the animal and plant kingdoms, featuring brief, tightly-focused coverage that does for biologists what H. M. Frost’s 1967 Introduction to Biomechanics did for physicians. Frequently encountered, basic concepts such as stress and strain, Young’s modulus, force coefficients, viscosity, and Reynolds number are introduced in early chapters in a self-contained format, making them quickly available for learning and as a refresher. . More sophisticated, integrative concepts such as viscoelasticity or properties of hydrostats are covered in the later chapters, where they draw on information from multiple earlier sections of the book. Animal and plant biomechanics is now a common research area widely acknowledged by organismal biologists to have broad relevance. Most of the day-to-day activities of an animal involve mechanical processes, and to the extent that organisms are shaped by adaptive evolution, many of those adaptations are constrained and channelized by mechanical properties. The similarity in body shape of a porpoise and a tuna is no coincidence. . Many may feel that they have an intuitive understanding of many of the mechanical processes that affect animals and plants, but careful biomechanical analyses often yield counterintuitive results: soft, squishy kelp may be better at withstanding pounding waves during storms than hard-shelled mollusks; really small swimmers might benefit from being spherical rather than streamlined; our bones can operate without breaking for decades, whereas steel surgical implants exhibit fatigue failures in a few months if not fully supported by bone.
Автор: W. Riggs, Damien Название: Pink Herrings ISBN: 1782201742 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782201748 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 3980.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Andreas Schmitz Название: The Structure of Digital Partner Choice ISBN: 3319435299 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319435299 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This work approaches the modern phenomenon of online dating, examining the ways people make use of its technical and social potential. In particular, the users' mate preferences, choices, strategies, and interactions are analyzed using the innovative method of click-stream observations and web-questionnaire data. For the purpose of these analyses, two major theories are used - an explicit theory of individual mate choice, and the more general relational theory developed by Pierre Bourdieu, which helps to highlight the social structures both underlying and resulting from mating online. Results show that online dating is not a partner marker free from social structure, but that the traditional social conditions found offline are also reproduced in this virtual setting. In contrast to the picture drawn by media discourse and advertising, online dating represents a partner market which fulfills the promise of happiness in a socially differential way.
Описание: Discover The Magical Power That The Codependency Workbook Can Bring To You and Your Partner For A Blossoming Relationship. Take That Step Beyond Love Today
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Автор: Alfredo V. Peretti; Anita Aisenberg Название: Cryptic Female Choice in Arthropods ISBN: 3319178938 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319178936 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 27950.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This timely book revisits cryptic female choice in arthropods, gathering detailed contributions from around the world to address key behavioral, ecological and evolutionary questions. The reader will find a critical summary of major breakthroughs in taxon-oriented chapters that offer many new perspectives and cases to explore and in many cases unpublished data. Many groups of arthropods such as spiders, harvestmen, flies, moths, crickets, earwigs, beetles, eusocial insects, shrimp and crabs are discussed. Sexual selection is currently the focus of numerous and controversial theoretical and experimental studies. Selection in mating and post-mating patterns can be shaped by several different mechanisms, including sperm competition, extreme sexual conflict and cryptic female choice. Discrimination among males during or after copulation is called cryptic female choice because it occurs after intromission, the event that was formerly used as the definitive criterion of male reproductive success and is therefore usually difficult to detect and confirm. Because it sequentially follows intra- and intersexual interactions that occur before copulation, cryptic female choice has the power to alter or negate precopulatory sexual selection. However, though female roles in biasing male paternity after copulation have been proposed for a number of species distributed in many animal groups, cryptic female choice continues to be often underestimated. Furthermore, in recent years the concept of sexual conflict has been frequently misused, linking sexual selection by female choice irrevocably and exclusively with sexually antagonistic co-evolution, without exploring other alternatives. The book offers an essential source of information on how two fields, selective cooperation and individual sex interests, work together in the context of cryptic female choice in nature, using arthropods as model organisms. It is bound to spark valuable discussions among scientists working in evolutionary biology across the world, motivating new generations to unveil the astonishing secrets of sexual biology throughout the animal kingdom.
Автор: Gerald A. Cory Jr. Название: The Reciprocal Modular Brain in Economics and Politics ISBN: 146137152X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781461371526 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Alfredo V. Peretti; Anita Aisenberg Название: Cryptic Female Choice in Arthropods ISBN: 3319348590 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319348599 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20896.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Cryptic Female Choice and Other Types of Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection.- Potential for CFC in Black Widows (Genus Latrodectus): Mechanisms and Social Context.- Cryptic Female Choice Within the Genus Argiope: A Comparative Approach.- Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection in Two Tropical Orb-Weaving Leucauge Spiders.- Copulatory and Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection in Haplogyne Spiders, With Emphasis on Pholcidae and Oonopidae.- Cryptic Female Choice and Nuptial Prey Gifts an a Spider Model.- Male and Female Mate Choice in Harvestmen: General Patterns and Inferences on the Underlying Processes.- Cryptic Female Choice in Crustaceans.- Female Choice in Damselflies and Dragonflies.- What is Indirect Cryptic Female Choice? Theoretical Considerations and an Example from a Promiscuous Earwig.- Cryptic Female Choice in Crickets and Relatives (Orthoptera: Ensifera).- Sexual Selection Within the Female Genitalia in Lepidoptera.- Who's Zooming Who? Seminal Fluids and Cryptic Female Choice in Diptera.- An Integrative View of Postcopulatory Sexual Selection in a Soldier Fly: Interplay Between Cryptic Mate Choice and Sperm Competition.- Species-Specific Behavioral Differences in Tsetse Fly Genital Morphology and Probable Cryptic Female Choice.- Evaluating Cryptic Female Choice in Highly Promiscuous Tribolium Beetles.- Female Choice in Social Insects.- Mating is a Give-And-Take of Influence and Communication Between the Sexes.
