Ebook {Epub PDF} Promiscuity by Tim Birkhead

Tim Birkhead. Faber Faber A book review by Danny Yee © www.doorway.ru Promiscuity is a tour of animal sexuality, exploring the effects of sperm competition and sex-based selective pressures on reproductive biology and behaviour. Birkhead begins with the history of sperm competition studies, from Darwin's work on sexual selection to Robert Trivers' work on parental . Tim Birkhead's tour of the new data is studded with bizarre adaptations and quirky behaviors, but its strength lies in his elegant account of the science and its puzzles-- some solved, others still mysterious. Promiscuity is a wonderfully fresh account--equally invaluable for students of evolutionary biology and ribald after-dinner www.doorway.ru by:  · Promiscuity by Tim Birkhead. Publication date Topics Sociology, Social Studies, Reproduction, Animal Reproduction, Human Reproduction, Science, Sperm competition, Science/Mathematics, Sexual selection in animals, Life Sciences - Evolution, Life Sciences - Zoology - General, Science / Evolution, Life Sciences - Human Anatomy User Interaction Count:

Tim Birkhead is professor of behavior and ecology at the University of Sheffield and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. His books include "Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition and Sexual Conflict" () and "The Red Canary" (). Promiscuity is a tour of animal sexuality, exploring the effects of sperm competition and sex-based selective pressures on reproductive biology and behaviour. Birkhead begins with the history of sperm competition studies, from Darwin's work on sexual selection to Robert Trivers' work on parental investment and Geoff Parker's role as "the father of sperm competition". Tim Birkhead, professor of behavioural ecology and the history of science at Sheffield University, UK, has devoted nearly 40 years to the study of promiscuity in birds. From Darwin's time up to the late s it was thought that male animals competed for female partners, with the strongest and most attractive males impregnating the most.

Female promiscuity and male sperm competition are rife in the animal kingdom. Tim Birkhead guides us through the unseen side of the battle of the sexes. Tim Birkhead. Faber Faber A book review by Danny Yee © www.doorway.ru Promiscuity is a tour of animal sexuality, exploring the effects of sperm competition and sex-based selective pressures on reproductive biology and behaviour. Birkhead begins with the history of sperm competition studies, from Darwin's work on sexual selection to Robert Trivers' work on parental investment and Geoff Parker's role as "the father of sperm competition". Tim Birkhead. Harvard University Press, - Science - pages. 1 Review. Males are promiscuous and ferociously competitive. Females--both human and of other species--are naturally monogamous.