The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters in Animals

Informationen zum Autor Janet L. Leonard is a research associate at the Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California - Santa Cruz. Throughout her career her research has focused on animal behavior, particularly in invertebrates, working on topics from neuroethology to evolutionary biology. At present she divides her time between theoretical and practical work, the latter focusing on the reproduction and evolution of banana slugs. Alex Córdoba-Aguilar is a researcher at the Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He studies the evolutionary forces that operate on the form and function of genitalic structures in invertebrates, mainly insects, and is the editor of Dragonflies and Damselflies: Model Organisms for Ecological and Evolutionary Research (OUP, 2008). Klappentext This edited volume explores primary sexual characters in a wide variety of animal taxa. It provides an overview of sexual diversity, the selective pressures that have shaped it, and an introduction to the data and theoretical issues in sexual selection that are changing our view of sexual processes. Zusammenfassung This edited volume explores primary sexual characters in a wide variety of animal taxa. It provides an overview of sexual diversity, the selective pressures that have shaped it, and an introduction to the data and theoretical issues in sexual selection that are changing our view of sexual processes.

Summary

This edited volume explores primary sexual characters in a wide variety of animal taxa. It provides an overview of sexual diversity, the selective pressures that have shaped it, and an introduction to the data and theoretical issues in sexual selection that are changing our view of sexual processes.

Product details

• Authors: Leonard, Janet Leonard, Janet (EDT)/ Cordoba-aguilar Leonard
• Assisted by: Alex Cordoba-Aguilar (Editor), Cordoba-Aguilar Alex (Editor), Janet Leonard (Editor), Leonard Janet (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.07.2010
• EAN: 9780195325553
• ISBN: 978-0-19-532555-3
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Taxonomy, Animal behaviour, Animal Ecology, Taxonomy & systematics, Ethology and animal behaviour, Zoology and animal sciences, Taxonomy and systematics, Evolution / Evolutionary biology