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Amino acid
Amphibian
Analogy
Animal communication
Appendage
Asymmetry
Attractiveness
Author_William Eberhard
Bean weevil
Bed bug
Bonobo
Cactus mouse
Cardinalis
Carnivora
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Chemical
Cladistics
Cladogram
Cognitive bias
Common chimpanzee
Copulation
Crab-eating macaque
Cryptic female choice
Design of experiments
Ejaculation
Endogamy
Endosperm
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Evolution
Experiment
Facial expression
Fallopian tube
Female
Female promiscuity
Future Evolution
Housefly
Kalotermitidae
Leech
Lek mating
Little owl
Macaque
Mating
Mating system
Month
Nasonia
Nematode
Obstacle
Oxytocin
Palaemnema
Paramere
Perception
Phenotype
Plasmid
Pollen tube
Polyandry
Polyploid
Prediction
Pseudoscorpion
Reduviidae
Result
Sense
Sex organ
Sex ratio
Sexual intercourse
Sexual selection
Sperm
Stimulation
Taxonomy (biology)
Termite
Trade-off
Traumatic insemination
Vaginal discharge
Vitellogenesis
Western honey bee
Product details
- ISBN 9780691010847
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 1996
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 compiled an impressive array of research on the ability of females to shape the outcome of mating. He describes studies of many different cryptic mechanisms by which a female can accept a male for copulation but nevertheless reject him as a father. Evidence from various fields indicates that such selectivity by females may be the norm rather than the exception. Because most post-copulatory competition between males for paternity is played out within the bodies of females, female behavior, morphology, and physiology probably often influence male success in these contests. Eberhard draws examples from a diversity of organisms, ranging from ctenophores to scorpions, nematodes to frogs, and crickets to humans. Cryptic female choice establishes a new bridge between sexual selection theory and reproductive physiology, in particular the physiological effects of male seminal products on female reproductive processes, such as sperm transport, oviposition, and remating.
Eberhard interweaves his review of previous studies with speculation on the consequences of this theoretical development, and indicates promising new directions for future research.
William G. Eberhard is a member of the scientific staff of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and Professor of Biology at the Escuela de Biologia of the Universidad de Costa Rica. He is the author of Sexual Selection and Animal Genitalia.
