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Alternative mating strategy
and Selection in Relation to Sex
Author_Stuart West
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Coefficient of relationship
Cooperative breeding
Dioecy
Dominance hierarchy
Effective population size
Environmental sex determination
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Evolution of sexual reproduction
Fecundity
Female
Fisher's principle
Fisherian runaway
Gamete
Genomic imprinting
Gonad
Group selection
Haldane's rule
Haplodiploidy
Heredity
Heritability
Heterogametic sex
Human sex ratio
Hybrid (biology)
Hybrid inviability
Inbreeding
Intersex
Introgression
Kin selection
Linkage disequilibrium
Male egg
Mate choice
Mating
Mating preferences
Meiotic drive
Mutation-selection balance
Nasonia vitripennis
Natural selection
Observational study
Outcrossing
Oviparity
Parasitism
Parasitoid wasp
Parental investment
Pheromone
Polymorphism (biology)
Population bottleneck
Population cycle
Population size
Reproductive isolation
Reproductive success
Reproductive value (population genetics)
Scramble competition
Selective sweep
Selfing
Sex allocation
Sex change
Sex ratio
Sex reversal
Sexual conflict
Sexual dimorphism
Sexual reproduction
Sexual selection
Small population size
Species complex
Sperm competition
The Descent of Man
The Evolution of Cooperation
Worker policing
Zygosity
Product details
- ISBN 9780691089645
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 18 Oct 2009
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of theoretical and empirical studies of sex allocation, transforming how we understand the allocation of resources to male and female reproduction in vertebrates, invertebrates, protozoa, and plants. In this landmark book, Stuart West synthesizes the vast literature on sex allocation, providing the conceptual framework the field has been lacking and demonstrating how sex-allocation studies can shed light on broader questions in evolutionary and behavioral biology. West clarifies fundamental misconceptions in the application of theory to empirical data. He examines the field's successes and failures, and describes the research areas where much important work is yet to be done. West reveals how a shared underlying theoretical framework unites findings of sex-ratio variation across a huge range of life forms, from malarial parasites and hermaphroditic worms to sex-changing fish and mammals.
He shows how research on sex allocation has been central to many critical questions and controversies in evolutionary and behavioral biology, and he argues that sex-allocation research serves as a key testing ground for different theoretical approaches and can help resolve debates about social evolution, parent-offspring conflict, genomic conflict, and levels of selection. Certain to become the defining book on the subject for the next generation of researchers, Sex Allocation explains why the study of sex allocation provides an ideal model system for advancing our understanding of the constraints on adaptation among all living things in the natural world.
Stuart West is professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Oxford.
