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

  • Milam, Erika Lorraine, 1974-
Date:
2010
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Description

Approaching the topic from both biological and animal-studies perspectives, Milam not only presents a broad history of sexual selection -- from Darwin to sociobiology -- but also analyzes the animal-human continuum from the perspectives of sex, evolution, and behavior. She asks how social and cultural assumptions influence human-animal research and wonders about the implications of gender on scientific outcomes.

Publication/Creation

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

Physical description

236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
    AOS /MIL
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  • 9780801894190
  • 0801894190