UID:
edocfu_9959229928702883
Umfang:
1 online resource (550 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-19-988675-X
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1-282-88088-8
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9786612880889
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0-19-971703-6
Inhalt:
Primary sexual traits, those structures and processes directly involved in reproduction, are some of the most diverse, specialized, and bizarre in the animal kingdom. Moreover, reproductive traits are often species-specific, suggesting that they evolved very rapidly. This diversity, long the province of taxonomists, has recently attracted broader interest from evolutionary biologists, especially those interested in sexual selection and the evolution of reproductive strategies. Primary sexual characters were long assumed to be the product of natural selection, exclusively. A recent alternative
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction: Celebrating and Understanding Reproductive Diversity; Part I: General Considerations; Part II: Primary Sexual Characters in Selected Taxa; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-19-532555-9
Sprache:
Englisch
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