Mate Choice: The Evolution of Sexual Decision Making from Microbes to Humans

By Kristin Hudlow. The American history teacher, 2018

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Mate Choice: The Evolution of Sexual Decision Making from Microbes to Humans. By Gil G. Rosenthal. 2017. Princeton University Press. (ISBN 9780691150673). 632 pp. Hardcover, $55.00. Mate Choice is an extremely thorough gathering of studies and analysis of how organisms choose mates. Many fields of science, including evolution, behavior, statistics, and economics, are used to explain how organisms go about choosing a mate. In the first chapter, the author distinguishes mate choice from sexual selection. He argues that mate choice is not as closely tied to sexual selection as is often implied, but that “mate-choice decisions can be adaptive, non-adaptive, or maladaptive” (p. 13). The first third of the book covers the history, definition, measurements, and studies on mate choice. The middle section covers variations in mate choice as well as how choice is affected …

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, History and Philosophy of Science, Sociology and Political Science

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