Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology

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aesthetic sensibility in animals: bower birds and, 9, 10, 91–93; choice-based behavior and, 1, 13, 23–24, 29–37, 163–64; female choice and, 2–3; Huxley and, 37–43; Wallace and, 20 aggression: in humans, 31–32, 100–102, 104; in rats, 32; ritualization and, 88. See also malemale competition Alcock, John, 143, 156–57 alien observers, 16 altruism, 46–47, 104, 141–42 American Museum of Natural History (AMNH): Beach and, 56, 59, 66–68; Great Depression and, 66; research at, 77, 79, 165–66; Tinbergen and, 81, 85–86. See also Aronson, Lester; Department of Animal Behavior; Laboratory of Experimental Biology ; Mayr, Ernst; Noble, Gladwyn Kingsley Andrews, Roy Chapman, 66 Animal Behavior (Alcock), 156–57 animal behavior, and evolutionary theory, 162–67 animal behavior discipline: expansion of, 54–55; female choice and, 4–5; Huxley and, 89; popular interest in, 135–36, 159 animal models of human behavior: capacity to choose and, 15–16, 28, 39, 40, 52, 109; history of, 7; as stand-ins, 79, 100, 108–9, 166 anoles, 62 anthropomorphism: choice-based behavior and, 1; emotional concern for animals and, 26–27; history of, 160–61; population genetics and, 5; as theoretical framework , 7–8 Ardrey, Robert, 102 Aronson, Lester, 56–57, 68–72, 74, 77–78, 165–66 assortative mating, 23, 114, 126, 151 athletes: macronutrients for, 303–7; transitioning diet as, 303 Atlas beetle, 14 Baerends, Gerard, 86–87 Baker, John, 91, 92 Barbour, Thomas, 56 Bastock, Margaret, 84, 94, 95–100, 117 Bateman, Angus John: Fisher and, 50–51; fruit flies and, 75–76; Hrdy critique of, 146–47; Trivers and, 139, 157; Williams and, 142 Bateson, Patrick, 154 Beach, Frank Ambrose, 56, 59, 66–68 beauty: in animal kingdom, explanation of, 2, 12–16, 20–21; in humans, 43–46, 49; problem of, 32–37, 130 Behavior Genetics (journal), 131 Biologische Versuchsanstalt, 58 biology: in France, 109; methodological approaches of, 5; theoretical, 6. See also evolutionary biology; mathematical biology; organismal biology birds: arctic skuas, 129; flickers, 63–65; great crested grebes, 37, 38, 39; Selous on, 36–37; tufted coquettes, 14. See also bower birds birds of paradise, 36, 68, 155 i n d e x Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations. 230 Index Bogert, Charles, 68 Bösiger, Ernst, 110, 124, 125–26, 127–28 bower birds: aesthetic sensibilities of, 9, 10, 91–92; courtship behavior of, 83; reproductive behavior and physiology of, 89, 90, 91, 92–94; song of, 68 branching model of evolution, 55, 57, 59, 79, 163, 165 Breder, Charles, 69 Bryan, William Jennings, 31 Burden, W. Douglas, 66 butterflies, 16, 47, 119 Campbell, Bernard, 139, 140, 150–52 capacity to choose: in animals, 15–16, 28, 39, 40, 52, 109; in humans, 18, 21, 27, 32, 45, 136, 160 Caspari, Ernest W., 151 Clark, Eugenie, 69, 70–72, 74, 77 comparative psychology: criticisms of, 67, 83, 85; overview of, 54–55, 80, 166 courtship display: of bower birds, 9, 90, 91–93; of great crested grebes, 38; in monogamous birds, 41 Courtship Habits of the Great Crested Grebe (Huxley), 37, 38, 39 courtship of animals: bower birds, 83; compared to courtship of humans, 41–42; Darwin on, 16; Drosophila, 88–89, 94–100; frameworks for viewing, 29–30, 51; spiders, 36 courtship of humans: Darwin and, 16; Huxley, Wells, and Wells textbook and, 41–42; as ritualized, 100–102, 103, 104–6; zoology and, 30 Cronin, Helena, 174n. 2, 217n. 93 Darlington, Cyril, 50 Darwin, Charles: Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, 1–2, 12–13, 14, 15–17, 33, 63, 83; dichotomy between animal and human and, 33; The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, 17–18, 23; life of, 11–12; Origin of Species, 12; sexual selection and, 1, 10–11, 12–17, 14 Darwin, Erasmus, 11 Darwin, Leonard, 43 Darwin Centennial Celebration, 147–48, 162 Dawkins, Richard, 136, 137, 144–45 de Beer, Gavin, 148 Department of Animal Behavior (AMNH), 56, 68, 77, 81, 165, 194n. 101 Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (Darwin), 1–2, 12–13, 14, 15–17, 33, 63, 83 DeVore, Irven, 138, 140 displacement activity, 83, 92–93, 106 Dobzhansky, Theodosius: Aronson and, 72; chapter in Campbell book by, 151; “classicalbalance ” debate of, 118–19; debates with Muller and Wright, 114–15; on female choice, 117–18; on fitness, 128; Genetics and the Origin of Species, 72–74; influence of, 57, 72, 78, 132, 150...