LEADER 05503nam 22006615 450 001 9910484874003321 005 20230811004639.0 010 $a94-017-9585-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-94-017-9585-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000343707 035 $a(EBL)1974092 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001424439 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11789936 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001424439 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11367515 035 $a(PQKB)10510409 035 $a(DE-He213)978-94-017-9585-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1974092 035 $a(PPN)183518454 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000343707 100 $a20150128d2015 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCurrent Perspectives on Sexual Selection $eWhat's left after Darwin? /$fedited by Thierry Hoquet 205 $a1st ed. 2015. 210 1$aDordrecht :$cSpringer Netherlands :$cImprint: Springer,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (322 p.) 225 1 $aHistory, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences,$x2211-1956 ;$v9 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a94-017-9584-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. 327 $aOpening 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. 330 $aThis root-and-branch reevaluation of Darwin?s concept of sexual selection tackles the subject from historical, epistemological and theoretical perspectives. Contributions from a wealth of disciplines have been marshaled for this volume, with key figures in behavioural ecology, philosophy, and the history of science adding to its wide-ranging relevance. Updating the reader on the debate currently live in behavioural ecology itself on the centrality of sexual selection, and with coverage of developments in the field of animal aesthetics, the book details the current state of play, while other chapters trace the history of sexual selection from Darwin to today and inquire into the neurobiological bases for partner choices and the comparisons between the hedonic brain in human and non-human animals. Welcome space is given to the social aspects of sexual selection, particularly where Darwin drew distinctions between eager males and coy females and rationalized this as evolutionary strategy. Also explored are the current definition of sexual selection (as opposed to natural selection) and its importance in today?s biological research, and the impending critique of the theory from the nascent field of animal aesthetics. As a comprehensive assessment of the current health, or otherwise, of Darwin?s theory, 140 years after the publication of his Descent of Man, the book offers a uniquely rounded view that asks whether ?sexual selection? is in itself a progressive or reactionary notion, even as it explores its theoretical relevance in the technical biological study of the twenty-first century. 410 0$aHistory, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences,$x2211-1956 ;$v9 606 $aBiology$xPhilosophy 606 $aEvolution (Biology) 606 $aSex (Psychology) 606 $aPhilosophy of Biology 606 $aEvolutionary Biology 606 $aPsychology of Gender and Sexuality 615 0$aBiology$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aEvolution (Biology). 615 0$aSex (Psychology). 615 14$aPhilosophy of Biology. 615 24$aEvolutionary Biology. 615 24$aPsychology of Gender and Sexuality. 676 $a575.00924 702 $aHoquet$b Thierry$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484874003321 996 $aCurrent Perspectives on Sexual Selection$92848010 997 $aUNINA