Looking for a few good males [[electronic resource] ] : female choice in evolutionary biology / / Erika Lorraine Milam
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| Autore: |
Milam Erika Lorraine <1974->
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| Titolo: |
Looking for a few good males [[electronic resource] ] : female choice in evolutionary biology / / Erika Lorraine Milam
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 591.56/2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Courtship in animals |
| Evolution (Biology) | |
| Courtship in animals - Research - History - 20th century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Looking for a few good males |
| ISBN: | 0-8018-9817-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456571603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Animals, history, culture.