LEADER 04284nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910457023803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-45862-0 010 $a9786612458620 010 $a1-4008-3201-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400832019 035 $a(CKB)2550000000002296 035 $a(EBL)483595 035 $a(OCoLC)592756161 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000342829 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11304590 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342829 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10288871 035 $a(PQKB)11615865 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC483595 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36626 035 $a(DE-B1597)447022 035 $a(OCoLC)979578648 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400832019 035 $a(PPN)170257797 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL483595 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10364728 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL245862 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000002296 100 $a20090501d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSex allocation$b[electronic resource] /$fStuart A. West 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (481 p.) 225 1 $aMonographs in population biology ;$v44 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-08963-9 311 $a0-691-08964-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tCHAPTER 1. Sex Allocation -- $tCHAPTER 2. The Düsing-Fisher Theory of Equal Investment -- $tCHAPTER 3. Interactions between Relatives I: Cooperation and Competition -- $tCHAPTER 4. Interactions between Relatives II: Local Mate Competition -- $tCHAPTER 5. Interactions between Relatives III: Extended Local Mate Competition Theory -- $tCHAPTER 6. Conditional Sex Allocation I: Basic Scenarios -- $tCHAPTER 7. Conditional Sex Allocation II: Population Consequences and Further Complications -- $tCHAPTER 8. Sex Allocation When Generations Overlap -- $tCHAPTER 9. Conflict I: Between Individuals -- $tCHAPTER 10. Conflict II: Sex Allocation Distorters -- $tCHAPTER 11. General Issues -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aRecent decades have witnessed an explosion of theoretical and empirical studies of sex allocation, transforming how we understand the allocation of resources to male and female reproduction in vertebrates, invertebrates, protozoa, and plants. In this landmark book, Stuart West synthesizes the vast literature on sex allocation, providing the conceptual framework the field has been lacking and demonstrating how sex-allocation studies can shed light on broader questions in evolutionary and behavioral biology. West clarifies fundamental misconceptions in the application of theory to empirical data. He examines the field's successes and failures, and describes the research areas where much important work is yet to be done. West reveals how a shared underlying theoretical framework unites findings of sex-ratio variation across a huge range of life forms, from malarial parasites and hermaphroditic worms to sex-changing fish and mammals. He shows how research on sex allocation has been central to many critical questions and controversies in evolutionary and behavioral biology, and he argues that sex-allocation research serves as a key testing ground for different theoretical approaches and can help resolve debates about social evolution, parent-offspring conflict, genomic conflict, and levels of selection. Certain to become the defining book on the subject for the next generation of researchers, Sex Allocation explains why the study of sex allocation provides an ideal model system for advancing our understanding of the constraints on adaptation among all living things in the natural world. 410 0$aMonographs in population biology ;$v44. 606 $aSex allocation 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSex allocation. 676 $a591.56/2 700 $aWest$b Stuart A.$f1970-$01030334 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457023803321 996 $aSex allocation$92447169 997 $aUNINA