Darwin and the making of sexual selection /
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2017.
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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.