Male Choice, Female Competition, and Female Ornaments in Sexual - Selectio

This novel text reviews our current understanding of male mate choice and female competition, highlighting the important connections between them. It places both concepts in the context of related fields such as female choice, mating systems, and sexual selection theory more broadly.

List of contents

• Preface


• 1: Sexual Selection, Mate Choice, and Competition for Mates


• 2: Female and Male Mate Choice: Similarities and Differences


• 3: Examples of Male Mate Choice


• 4: What Males Choose: Differences in Female Quality


• 5: Male Investment and Male Choice


• 6: Mechanism of Male Choice: Sex Ratios


• 7: Ornaments in Females


• 8: Female-Female Competition


• 9: Synthesis and Outlook

About the author

Ingo Schlupp is Presidential Professor of Biology at the Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, USA. He is broadly interested in ecology and evolution; in particular, he wants to understand some of the old, deep puzzles in evolution, such as the evolution of meiosis, speciation, and large scale biogeography. Most of his work uses livebearing fishes as model organisms.

Summary

This novel text reviews our current understanding of male mate choice and female competition, highlighting the important connections between them. It places both concepts in the context of related fields such as female choice, mating systems, and sexual selection theory more broadly.

Additional text

In Male Choice, Female Competition, and Female Ornaments in Sexual Selection, Ingo Schlupp calls for more empirical and theoretical attention be paid to the evolution of male mate choice and female ornamentation.

Product details

• Authors: Ingo Schlupp, Ingo (Presidential Professor of Biology Schlupp, Schlupp Ingo
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.01.2023
• EAN: 9780192872586
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287258-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Zoology & animal sciences, Animal behaviour, Genetics (non-medical), Ethology and animal behaviour, Zoology and animal sciences, Evolution / Evolutionary biology