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Current Perspectives on Sexual Selection - What's left after Darwin? (Hardcover)
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Current Perspectives on Sexual Selection - What's left after Darwin? (Hardcover)
Series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, 9
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This root-and-branch re-evaluation 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.
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