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Sexual Selection: A Very Short Introduction

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Sexual Selection: A Very Short Introduction

By Evolution and Behavior at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities) Zuk Marlene (Professor in the Department of Ecology, and Director of the UWA Centre for Evolutionary Biology) Simmons Leigh W. (Professor in the School of Animal Biology at the University of Western Australia

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What is responsible for the differences between the sexes in so many animals, from the brilliant plumage of birds of paradise to the antlers on deer? And why are the traits that distinguish the sexes sometimes apparently detrimental to survival? Even when they look more or less alike, why do males and females sometimes behave differently? Questions like these have intrigued scientists and the public alike for many years, and new discoveries are showing us both howwildly variable the natural worl...Show more

Life sciences: general issues
Evolution
Computational biology / bioinformatics

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9780198778752

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Oxford University Press

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2018

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Sexual Selection: A Very Short Introduction

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