Evolutionary perspectives on pregnancy / / John C. Avise ; animal drawings by Trudy Nicholson |
Autore | Avise John C. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (347 p.) |
Disciplina | 573.66 |
Soggetto topico |
Pregnancy in animals
Vertebrates - Reproduction Invertebrates - Reproduction Sexual selection in animals Evolution (Biology) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-231-53145-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I. Distribution and Diversity of Pregnancy -- CHAPTER ONE. One Generation Inside Another -- CHAPTER TWO. Vertebrate Live- Bearers: The Borne and the Born -- CHAPTER THREE. Vertebrate Alternatives to Standard Pregnancy -- CHAPTER FOUR. Nonvertebrate Brooders -- CHAPTER FIVE Human Pregnancy in Mythology and in Real Life -- PART II. Evolutionary Ramifications of Pregnancy -- CHAPTER SIX. Natural Selection During Mammalian Pregnancy -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Sexual Selection and Piscine Pregnancy -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Pregnancy in a Comparative Light -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Molecular - Genetic Parentage Analysis -- Glossary -- Reference S Cited -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462828803321 |
Avise John C. | ||
New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2013] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Evolutionary perspectives on pregnancy / / John C. Avise ; animal drawings by Trudy Nicholson |
Autore | Avise John C. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (347 p.) |
Disciplina | 573.66 |
Soggetto topico |
Pregnancy in animals
Vertebrates - Reproduction Invertebrates - Reproduction Sexual selection in animals Evolution (Biology) |
ISBN | 0-231-53145-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I. Distribution and Diversity of Pregnancy -- CHAPTER ONE. One Generation Inside Another -- CHAPTER TWO. Vertebrate Live- Bearers: The Borne and the Born -- CHAPTER THREE. Vertebrate Alternatives to Standard Pregnancy -- CHAPTER FOUR. Nonvertebrate Brooders -- CHAPTER FIVE Human Pregnancy in Mythology and in Real Life -- PART II. Evolutionary Ramifications of Pregnancy -- CHAPTER SIX. Natural Selection During Mammalian Pregnancy -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Sexual Selection and Piscine Pregnancy -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Pregnancy in a Comparative Light -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Molecular - Genetic Parentage Analysis -- Glossary -- Reference S Cited -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786052203321 |
Avise John C. | ||
New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2013] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Evolutionary perspectives on pregnancy / / John C. Avise ; animal drawings by Trudy Nicholson |
Autore | Avise John C. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (347 p.) |
Disciplina | 573.66 |
Soggetto topico |
Pregnancy in animals
Vertebrates - Reproduction Invertebrates - Reproduction Sexual selection in animals Evolution (Biology) |
ISBN | 0-231-53145-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I. Distribution and Diversity of Pregnancy -- CHAPTER ONE. One Generation Inside Another -- CHAPTER TWO. Vertebrate Live- Bearers: The Borne and the Born -- CHAPTER THREE. Vertebrate Alternatives to Standard Pregnancy -- CHAPTER FOUR. Nonvertebrate Brooders -- CHAPTER FIVE Human Pregnancy in Mythology and in Real Life -- PART II. Evolutionary Ramifications of Pregnancy -- CHAPTER SIX. Natural Selection During Mammalian Pregnancy -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Sexual Selection and Piscine Pregnancy -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Pregnancy in a Comparative Light -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Molecular - Genetic Parentage Analysis -- Glossary -- Reference S Cited -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822561003321 |
Avise John C. | ||
New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2013] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reproductive skew in vertebrates : proximate and ultimate causes / / edited by Reinmar Hager, Clara B. Jones [[electronic resource]] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxi, 523 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 591.56/2 |
Soggetto topico |
Vertebrates - Reproduction
Sexual selection in animals |
ISBN |
1-107-19684-1
9786612386282 0-511-64061-7 1-282-38628-X 0-511-64129-X 0-511-63885-X 0-511-63777-2 0-511-64195-8 0-511-63993-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Models of reproductive skew : outside options and the resolution of reproductive conflict / Rufus A. Johnstone and Michael A. Cant -- Reproductive conflict and the evolution of menopause / Michael A. Cant, Rufus A. Johnstone, and Andrew F. Russell -- Reproductive skew in female-dominated mammalian societies / Kay E. Holekamp and Anne L. Engh -- The effects of heterogeneous regimes on reproductive skew in eutherian mammals / Clara B. Jones -- Social skew as a measure of the costs and benefits of group living in marmots / Thea B. Wang, Peter Nonacs, and Daniel T. Blumstein -- Explaining variation in reproductive skew among male langurs : effects of future mating prospects and ecological factors / Reinmar Hager -- The causes and consequences of reproductive skew in male primates / Nobuyuki Kutsukake and Charles L. Nunn -- Sociality and reproductive skew in horses and zebras / Daniel I. Rubenstein and Cassandra M. Nuñez -- Reproductive skew in avian societies / Walter D. Koenig [and others] -- Reproductive skew in cooperative fish groups : virtue and limitations of alternative modeling approaches / Michael Taborsky -- Reproductive skew in primitively eusocial wasps : how useful are current models? / Jeremy Field and Michael A. Cant -- Reproductive skew in female common marmosets : contributions of infanticide and subordinate self-restraint / David H. Abbott, Leslie Digby, and Wendy Saltzman -- Reproductive skew in African mole-rats : behavioral and physiological mechanisms to maintain high skew / Chris G. Faulkes and Nigel C. Bennett -- The causes of physiological suppression in vertebrate societies : a synthesis / Andrew J. Young -- Understanding variation in reproductive skew : directions for future empirical research / Sarah J. Hodge -- On the evolution of reproductive skew : a genetical view / W. Edwin Harris and Reinmar Hager -- Social conflict resolution, life history, and the reconstruction of skew / Bernard J. Crespi. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455283503321 |
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reproductive skew in vertebrates : proximate and ultimate causes / / edited by Reinmar Hager, Clara B. Jones [[electronic resource]] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxi, 523 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 591.56/2 |
Soggetto topico |
Vertebrates - Reproduction
Sexual selection in animals |
ISBN |
1-107-19684-1
9786612386282 0-511-64061-7 1-282-38628-X 0-511-64129-X 0-511-63885-X 0-511-63777-2 0-511-64195-8 0-511-63993-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Models of reproductive skew : outside options and the resolution of reproductive conflict / Rufus A. Johnstone and Michael A. Cant -- Reproductive conflict and the evolution of menopause / Michael A. Cant, Rufus A. Johnstone, and Andrew F. Russell -- Reproductive skew in female-dominated mammalian societies / Kay E. Holekamp and Anne L. Engh -- The effects of heterogeneous regimes on reproductive skew in eutherian mammals / Clara B. Jones -- Social skew as a measure of the costs and benefits of group living in marmots / Thea B. Wang, Peter Nonacs, and Daniel T. Blumstein -- Explaining variation in reproductive skew among male langurs : effects of future mating prospects and ecological factors / Reinmar Hager -- The causes and consequences of reproductive skew in male primates / Nobuyuki Kutsukake and Charles L. Nunn -- Sociality and reproductive skew in horses and zebras / Daniel I. Rubenstein and Cassandra M. Nuñez -- Reproductive skew in avian societies / Walter D. Koenig [and others] -- Reproductive skew in cooperative fish groups : virtue and limitations of alternative modeling approaches / Michael Taborsky -- Reproductive skew in primitively eusocial wasps : how useful are current models? / Jeremy Field and Michael A. Cant -- Reproductive skew in female common marmosets : contributions of infanticide and subordinate self-restraint / David H. Abbott, Leslie Digby, and Wendy Saltzman -- Reproductive skew in African mole-rats : behavioral and physiological mechanisms to maintain high skew / Chris G. Faulkes and Nigel C. Bennett -- The causes of physiological suppression in vertebrate societies : a synthesis / Andrew J. Young -- Understanding variation in reproductive skew : directions for future empirical research / Sarah J. Hodge -- On the evolution of reproductive skew : a genetical view / W. Edwin Harris and Reinmar Hager -- Social conflict resolution, life history, and the reconstruction of skew / Bernard J. Crespi. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778408003321 |
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reproductive skew in vertebrates : proximate and ultimate causes / / edited by Reinmar Hager, Clara B. Jones |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxi, 523 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 591.56/2 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
JonesClara B
HagerReinmar <1974-> |
Soggetto topico |
Vertebrates - Reproduction
Sexual selection in animals |
ISBN |
1-107-19684-1
9786612386282 0-511-64061-7 1-282-38628-X 0-511-64129-X 0-511-63885-X 0-511-63777-2 0-511-64195-8 0-511-63993-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Models of reproductive skew : outside options and the resolution of reproductive conflict / Rufus A. Johnstone and Michael A. Cant -- Reproductive conflict and the evolution of menopause / Michael A. Cant, Rufus A. Johnstone, and Andrew F. Russell -- Reproductive skew in female-dominated mammalian societies / Kay E. Holekamp and Anne L. Engh -- The effects of heterogeneous regimes on reproductive skew in eutherian mammals / Clara B. Jones -- Social skew as a measure of the costs and benefits of group living in marmots / Thea B. Wang, Peter Nonacs, and Daniel T. Blumstein -- Explaining variation in reproductive skew among male langurs : effects of future mating prospects and ecological factors / Reinmar Hager -- The causes and consequences of reproductive skew in male primates / Nobuyuki Kutsukake and Charles L. Nunn -- Sociality and reproductive skew in horses and zebras / Daniel I. Rubenstein and Cassandra M. Nuñez -- Reproductive skew in avian societies / Walter D. Koenig [and others] -- Reproductive skew in cooperative fish groups : virtue and limitations of alternative modeling approaches / Michael Taborsky -- Reproductive skew in primitively eusocial wasps : how useful are current models? / Jeremy Field and Michael A. Cant -- Reproductive skew in female common marmosets : contributions of infanticide and subordinate self-restraint / David H. Abbott, Leslie Digby, and Wendy Saltzman -- Reproductive skew in African mole-rats : behavioral and physiological mechanisms to maintain high skew / Chris G. Faulkes and Nigel C. Bennett -- The causes of physiological suppression in vertebrate societies : a synthesis / Andrew J. Young -- Understanding variation in reproductive skew : directions for future empirical research / Sarah J. Hodge -- On the evolution of reproductive skew : a genetical view / W. Edwin Harris and Reinmar Hager -- Social conflict resolution, life history, and the reconstruction of skew / Bernard J. Crespi. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811469403321 |
Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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