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Milam Erika Lorraine <1974-> |
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Looking for a few good males [[electronic resource] ] : female choice in evolutionary biology / / Erika Lorraine Milam |
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Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (247 p.) |
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Collana |
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Animals, history, culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Courtship in animals |
Evolution (Biology) |
Courtship in animals - Research - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction; CHAPTER 1. Beauty and the Beast: Darwin, Wallace, and the Animal-Human Boundary; CHAPTER 2. Progressive Desire: Rational Evolution after the Great War; CHAPTER 3. Branching Out, Scaling Up: American Experiments on Behavior; CHAPTER 4. Courtly Behavior: The Rituals of British Zoologists; CHAPTER 5. A Science of Rare Males: The Genetics of Populations in the Long 1960's; CHAPTER 6. Selective History: Writing Female Choice into Organismal Biology; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Essay on Sources; Index; |
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