In sexually reproducing animals, individuals of one sex may have to compete for access to
mating partners of the opposite sex. The operational sex ratio (OSR) is central in predicting …

Empirical studies of sexual selection typically focus on one of the two mechanisms of sexual
selection without integrating these into a description of total sexual selection, or study total …

The book aims to integrate our understanding of mammalian societies into a novel synthesis
that is relevant to behavioural ecologists, ecologists, and anthropologists. It adopts a …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

A growing body of evidence has begun to reveal flaws in the traditional assumption of
female passivity and lack of discrimination after copulation has begun. William Eberhard has …

THIS PROJECT grew out of our conviction that there was need for a book that would review
insect reproductive behavior and related topics from an evolutionary perspective, particularly …

Sexual and asexual reproduction are found throughout the plant and animal kingdoms.
Asexual reproduction has its advantages, chief among which is that it does not require the …

This textbook provides a general overview of animal behavior in an evolutionary context.
Some of the topics covered in the chapters include the proximate and ultimate causes of bird …

This book is a success story. It explains two long-running puzzles of the theory of natural
selection. How can natural selection favour those, like the ant, that renounce tooth and claw …

What does it mean to be female? Sarah Blaffer Hrdy--a sociobiologist and a feminist--
believes that evolutionary biology can provide some surprising answers. Surprising to those …