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Sex Allocation
Stuart West
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Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of theoretical and empirical studies of sex allocation, transforming how we understand the allocation of resources to male and female reproduction in vertebrates, invertebrates, protozoa, and plants. In this landmark book, Stuart West synthesizes the vast literature on sex allocation, providing the conceptual framework the field has been lacking and demonstrating how sex-allocation studies can shed light on broader questions in evolutionary and behavioral biology.
West clarifies fundamental misconceptions in the application of theory to empirical data. He examines the field's successes and failures, and describes the research areas where much important work is yet to be done. West reveals how a shared underlying theoretical framework unites findings of sex-ratio variation across a huge range of life forms, from malarial parasites and hermaphroditic worms to sex-changing fish and mammals. He shows how research on sex allocation has been central to many critical questions and controversies in evolutionary and behavioral biology, and he argues that sex-allocation research serves as a key testing ground for different theoretical approaches and can help resolve debates about social evolution, parent-offspring conflict, genomic conflict, and levels of selection.
Certain to become the defining book on the subject for the next generation of researchers, Sex Allocation explains why the study of sex allocation provides an ideal model system for advancing our understanding of the constraints on adaptation among all living things in the natural world.
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Sex change, Oviparity, Cooperative breeding, Mating, Haldane's rule, Population cycle, Sperm competition, Population size, Sexual conflict, Hybrid (biology), Pheromone, Intersex, Fisherian runaway, Sexual dimorphism, Reproductive success, Female, Hybrid inviability, Sex ratio, Heritability, Mutation–selection balance, Population bottleneck, Allosome, Heterogametic sex, Evolution of sexual reproduction, Polymorphism (biology), Reproductive isolation, Coefficient of relationship, Sexual selection, Genomic imprinting, Species complex, Environmental sex determination, Zygosity, Selective sweep, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Mating preferences, Dioecy, Sex reversal, Worker policing, Observational study, Selfing, The Evolution of Cooperation, Mate choice, Reproductive value (population genetics), Group selection, Alternative mating strategy, Haplodiploidy, Introgression, Linkage disequilibrium, Heredity, Human sex ratio, Inbreeding, Male egg, Fecundity, Small population size, Parasitism, Parental investment, Sex allocation, Sexual reproduction, Kin selection, Scramble competition, Fisher's principle, Meiotic drive, Outcrossing, Gamete, Parasitoid wasp, Gonad, Natural selection, Effective population size, Dominance hierarchy, Nasonia vitripennis