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Part III: SEXUAL SELECTION, OR ADAPTATION TO MATING DEMANDS
Pages 165-168

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From page 165...
... , Adam Jones and nicholas ratterman in Chapter 9 identify three modern triumphs in sexual selection research: the introduction and widespread use of molecular markers to assess genetic parentage (the key to describing mating systems in nature) unequivocally; a better conceptual understanding (at least in formal models)
From page 166...
... in Chapter 11, Patricia Gowaty and stephen hubbell offer a novel perspective on what underlies the individual decision-making process that in turn underlies patterns of mate choice and sexual selection in various species. Their central thesis is that even stochastic variation in various parameters that predict the time available for mating might promote considerable flexibility in individual decision making with regard to mate choice; and that even consistent sex differences in these mating proclivities might therefore, in at least some cases, reflect ecological constraints (habits-of-life considerations)
From page 167...
... The miniature worlds of gametic competition and gametic choice have proven to be every bit as fascinating and compelling as the macroscopic worlds of mating competition and mate choice that have been the traditional foci of sexual selection studies. eberhard brings this miniature Kama sutra realm to light by detailing fascinating examples of sexual selection in the time interval (which is often but not invariably brief)


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