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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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Gonad, Intersex, Natural selection, Genomic imprinting, Mate choice, Mutation–selection balance, Sexual conflict, The Evolution of Cooperation, Reproductive isolation, Evolution of sexual reproduction, Sexual dimorphism, Human sex ratio, Reproductive value (population genetics), Population cycle, Male egg, Parental investment, Small population size, Dominance hierarchy, Heredity, Fisher's principle, Dioecy, Hybrid (biology), Nasonia vitripennis, Kin selection, Population size, Fecundity, Parasitoid wasp, Observational study, Sex ratio, Heterogametic sex, Haplodiploidy, Sex reversal, Polymorphism (biology), Selective sweep, Sexual reproduction, Environmental sex determination, Allosome, Sperm competition, Sexual selection, Selfing, Reproductive success, Haldane's rule, Coefficient of relationship, Oviparity, Mating, Mating preferences, Hybrid inviability, Group selection, Sex allocation, Gamete, Cooperative breeding, Population bottleneck, Fisherian runaway, Zygosity, Outcrossing, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Meiotic drive, Linkage disequilibrium, Worker policing, Pheromone, Female, Inbreeding, Alternative mating strategy, Species complex, Parasitism, Scramble competition, Introgression, Sex change, Effective population size, Heritability