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  title info:
    title: Darwin and the making of sexual selection
  name:
    name part: Richards, Evelleen
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: ProQuest (Firm)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  table of contents: Prologue: "an awful stretcher" -- Beauty, brotherhood, and breeding: the origins of sexual selection. The ugly brother -- Good wives -- "Bliss botanic" and "cocks heroic": two Darwins in the "temple of nature" -- Beauty cuts the knot -- Reading the face of race -- Good breeding: the art of mating -- "Better than a dog anyhow" -- Flirting with fashion -- Development matters -- "For beauty's sake": the making of sexual selection. Critical years: from pigeons to people -- Putting female choice in (proper) place -- The battle for beauty: Wallace versus Darwin -- Writing the Descent: from bird's-eye view to masterful breeder -- The post-Descent years: sexual selection in crisis, female choice at large -- Epilogue: last words.
  note: Evelleen Richards.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Darwin, Charles
      name part: 1809-1882
  subject:
    topic: Sexual selection
    topic: History
  classification: QH31.D2 R45 2017
  classification: 576.8/2
  identifier: 9780226437064
  identifier: 022643706X
  identifier: 9780226436906
  identifier: 022643690X
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: NhCcYBP
    record creation date: 170327
    record change date: 20250816223701.8
    record identifier: in00003860280