... to a sexual conflict. Experimental studies suggest that conflicts over the start of guarding generate sexual selection for traits related to obtaining or resisting mates, as well as for traits related to cryptic female choice. Isopod mating systems can be used to clarify the roles played by traditional female...

... with permission from John Wiley & Sons.) Thornhill and Alcock (1983) first proposed that female choice in insects may continue beyond the initiation of copulation. It is now clear that cryptic female choice (CFC) is indeed a key element of sexual selection and sexual conflict. There have been fine empirical...

... theory on the other. It first considers scientific explanations of women's nature, or womanhood as a subject of science, before turning to research on female choice and the animal/woman divide in the early twentieth century. The chapter also discusses the use of human and animal models of “natural...

.... The more interesting bottom fragment indicates Darwin’s attribution of female choice to the rock manakin, whose “brilliant colours and strange antics” are attractive “to the hens of that bird.” DAR 85B:34r, 25r. By permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. Figure 11.2. Hummingbirds...

... the issues of female choice, protective colouration and human evolution in the contexts of the Huxley-led drive for Darwinian cognitive and cultural authority, institutional conflict between the Darwinian Ethnological Society and the racialist Anthropological Society of London, the American Civil War...

... and Alfred Russel Wallace, are assessed. As sexual selection (along with natural selection) went into eclipse, female choice was seized upon by an array of social purists, eugenicists, sexual reformers, birth controllers, feminists and socialists, notably Wallace, who in a volte face in1890 advocated a post...

...Sexual selection is the advantage that certain individuals have over others of the same sex and species, solely in respect of reproduction. The biology of anoles opens the door to the existence of varied ways in which sexual selection may occur, such as sperm competition and cryptic female choice...

... female choice (CFC)? This chapter focuses on events surrounding the fertilization of an egg by a sperm and the opportunities where cryptic fertilization bias might occur. It presents a new model of decapod fertilization, defined in terms of space and time to fertilization. Females have several ways...

...Chapter four traces the Darwinian concept of “female choice” of sexual partners as it reverberated through feminist and socialist reform circles at the turn of the twentieth century. Darwinian feminists, including Eliza Burt Gamble and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, argued that humans needed to return...

... M rollsnaps shell gland forest falcons Braun Mike Stein Adam Uy J Albert Al leks androgens fruitcrows white throated sparrows Zonotrichia albicollis Avian female reproductive physiology Nesting cyle Female choice of mate Although the bulk of this book is focused on the behaviors...

... tectum pair bond hyena pipefish seahorse habitat mating strategy perception crow diet honeyeater little stint pheasant tailed jacana sociality wren female choice hormones humans mating strategy parental care sexual selection songbirds sperm competition We might ask if the small...

...Freshwater amphipods are used as a research model for studies of female mating preferences, the nature of benefits that drive female choice, and the influence of sexual conflict on female preference. Direct selection on female mating preferences is hypothesized to occur during the contact pairing...

..., as a selective force on an individual plant’s phenology, morphology, or rewards, and at a genetic level structuring competition for pollens between males, and female choice between possible mates. The chapter first considers several types of of competition in pollination ecology, potential outcomes...

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... that have been explored to good effect in the years since we wrote our book, most notably the adaptive basis of polyandry in insects but also cryptic female choice, the resolution of the lek paradox, and new ways of categorizing and studying the diversity of insect mating systems. Insect behavioural ecology...

...) of the flanged males, but are sexually active, fertile and known to sire offspring. In some males, full development may be delayed until they are over 30. This ‘bimaturism’ is hypothesized to have arisen as a result of sexual selection in which female choice, male–male competition and male coercion have all...

... and conceptual scope of the original book up to date. We explore the evolution of often complex forms of sex determination in insects, and the role of sexual selection in shaping the evolution of mating systems. Selection arising via male contest competition and female choice, both before and after copulation...

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... thoroughgoing identification of the process of aesthetic choice with the discriminating, artistic eye of the breeder was a stumbling block to the notion of analogous female choice in nature. Female choice, already a challenging concept for a Victorian, was made doubly so for Darwin, confronting the seeming...

... understanding confirmed the agency of female choice in animals, powered Darwin’s dispute with Wallace and gave him the confidence and self-belief to write the Descent of Man. As he later recalled, divergence was a “problem of great importance” that Darwin “overlooked” until “long after [he] had come...