Synopsis
Opening Pandora's Boxes in Sexual Selection Research; Thierry Hoquet.- Section 1. In Darwin's footsteps: historical issues.- Chapter 1. Sexual Selection: Why does it Play such a Large Role in the Descent of Man?; Michael Ruse.- Chapter 2. Utility vs Beauty: The Darwin/Wallace Debate as a Structuring Pattern in the History of Sexual Selection?; Thierry Hoquet and Michael Levandowsky.- Chapter 3. Darwin on the proportion of the sexes and general fertility: discovery and rejection of sex-ratio evolution and density-dependent selection; Michel Veuille.- Chapter 4. Sexual selection in the French school of population genetics: Claudine Petit (1920-2007); Jean Gayon.- Section 2. Current challenges.- Chapter 5. Sexual selection: is anything left?; Joan Roughgarden.- Chapter 6. Standing on Darwin's shoulders: the nature of selection hypotheses; Patricia Adair Gowaty.- Chapter 7. Sexual selection: the logical imperative; Tommaso Pizzari and Geoff. Parker.- Chapter 8. Selfish genetic elements and sexual selection; Nina Wedell and Tom A.R. Price.- Chapter 9. Preference, rationality and interindividual variation: the persisting debate about female choice; Frank Cézilly.- Chapter 10. Reaction norms of sex and adaptive individual flexibility in reproductive decisions; Malin Ah-King and Patricia Adair Gowaty.- Section 3. Prospects: Animal aesthetics?.- Chapter 11. The role of sexual autonomy in evolution by mate choice; Richard O. Prum.- Chapter 12. The riddle of attractiveness: looking for an 'Aesthetic sense' within the hedonic mind of the beholders; Michel Kreutzer and Verena Aebischer.- Chapter 13. Aesthetics and reinforcement: A behavioural approach to aesthetics; Shigeru Watanabe.
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