Sexual Strategies: How Females Choose Their Mates
"Sexual Strategies is a gem: a beautifully researched and concise introduction to animal mating systems and the clearest available account on the biology of female choice."-Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis and author of Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection

Sexual Strategies explores the complexities of the mating game from fruit flies to humans and explains why females are in charge. By determining which males mate and father offspring, females play a directive role in evolution. Fascinating examples reveal the biology underlying courtship, deception, love, and sexual conflict.
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Sexual Strategies: How Females Choose Their Mates
"Sexual Strategies is a gem: a beautifully researched and concise introduction to animal mating systems and the clearest available account on the biology of female choice."-Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis and author of Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection

Sexual Strategies explores the complexities of the mating game from fruit flies to humans and explains why females are in charge. By determining which males mate and father offspring, females play a directive role in evolution. Fascinating examples reveal the biology underlying courtship, deception, love, and sexual conflict.
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Sexual Strategies: How Females Choose Their Mates

Sexual Strategies: How Females Choose Their Mates

by Mary Batten
Sexual Strategies: How Females Choose Their Mates

Sexual Strategies: How Females Choose Their Mates

by Mary Batten

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"Sexual Strategies is a gem: a beautifully researched and concise introduction to animal mating systems and the clearest available account on the biology of female choice."-Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis and author of Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection

Sexual Strategies explores the complexities of the mating game from fruit flies to humans and explains why females are in charge. By determining which males mate and father offspring, females play a directive role in evolution. Fascinating examples reveal the biology underlying courtship, deception, love, and sexual conflict.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780595510399
Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date: 05/12/2008
Pages: 284
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.64(d)

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Sarah Blaffer Hardy

Sexual Strategies is a gem: a beautifully researched and concise introduction to animal mating systems and the clearest available account on the biology of female choice. (Sarah Blaffer Hardy, Ph.D. Professor of anthropology, University of California, Davis and author of The Woman That Never Evolved)

Napoleon A. Chagnon

Mary Batten has done more to educate and convince the public than most scientists will ever do. Sexual Strategies is one of the best pieces of science writing I have ever seen. (Napoleon A. Chagnon, Ph.D. Professor of anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Yanomamo: The Last Days Of Eden)

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