Mate Choice

Book Overview

Animals may be careful in their choice of mates for a variety of reasons. The ideal mate may have to hold valuable resources as well as being highly fertile or fecund. As likely as not, it should be neither too closely related nor too distantly related, and it should be maximally attractive. All these aspects of a member of the opposite sex may influence how many descendants the pair could produce, but the importance of each will usually depend on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521272076
• ISBN13: 9780521272070
• Release Date: April 1983
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"