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Looking for a few good males : female choice in evolutionary biology / Erika Lorraine Milam.

By: Series: Animals, history, culturePublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.Description: 236 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780801894190
  • 0801894190
  • 9781421404028
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 591.56/2 22
LOC classification:
  • QL761 .M48 2010
Contents:
Beauty and the beast: Darwin, Wallace, and the animal-human boundary -- Progressive desire: rational evolution after the great war -- Branching out, Scaling up: American experiments on behavior -- Courtly behavior: the rituals of British zoologists -- A science of rare males: the genetics of populations in the long 1960s -- Selective history: writing female choice into organismal biology.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Beauty and the beast: Darwin, Wallace, and the animal-human boundary -- Progressive desire: rational evolution after the great war -- Branching out, Scaling up: American experiments on behavior -- Courtly behavior: the rituals of British zoologists -- A science of rare males: the genetics of populations in the long 1960s -- Selective history: writing female choice into organismal biology.

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