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- catalog abstract ""Tim Birkhead reveals a wonderful world in which males and females vie with each other as they strive to maximize their reproductive success. Both sexes have evolved staggeringly sophisticated ways to get what they want - often at the expense of the other. He introduces us to fish whose first encounter locks them together for life in a perpetual sexual embrace; hermaphrodites who "joust" with their reproductive organs, each trying to inseminate the other without being inseminated; and tiny flies whose seminal fluid is so toxic that it not only destroys the sperm of rival males but eventually kills the female. He explores the long and tortuous road leading to our current state of knowledge, from Aristotle's observations on chickens, to the first successful artificial insemination in the seventeenth century, to today's ingenious molecular markers for assigning paternity. And he shows how much human behavior - from the wife-sharing habits of Inuit hunters to Charlie Chaplin's paternity case - is influenced by sperm competition."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11789122.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Tim Birkhead reveals a wonderful world in which males and females vie with each other as they strive to maximize their reproductive success. Both sexes have evolved staggeringly sophisticated ways to get what they want - often at the expense of the other. He introduces us to fish whose first encounter locks them together for life in a perpetual sexual embrace; hermaphrodites who "joust" with their reproductive organs, each trying to inseminate the other without being inseminated; and tiny flies whose seminal fluid is so toxic that it not only destroys the sperm of rival males but eventually kills the female.".
- catalog description "Competition, Choice and Sexual Conflict -- Paternity and Protection -- Genitalia -- Spern, Ejaculation, and Ova -- Copulation, Insemination and fertilization -- Mechanisms of Sperm Competition and Sperm Choice -- The Benefits of Polyandry.".
- catalog description "He explores the long and tortuous road leading to our current state of knowledge, from Aristotle's observations on chickens, to the first successful artificial insemination in the seventeenth century, to today's ingenious molecular markers for assigning paternity. And he shows how much human behavior - from the wife-sharing habits of Inuit hunters to Charlie Chaplin's paternity case - is influenced by sperm competition."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-262) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 272 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Promiscuity.".
- catalog identifier "0674004450".
- catalog isFormatOf "Promiscuity.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Promiscuity.".
- catalog subject "2007 D-284".
- catalog subject "591.56/2 21".
- catalog subject "Biological Evolution.".
- catalog subject "Promiscuity.".
- catalog subject "QL 761 B619p 2000".
- catalog subject "QL761 .B57 2000".
- catalog subject "Reproduction.".
- catalog subject "Selection, Genetic.".
- catalog subject "Sexual Behavior, Animal.".
- catalog subject "Sexual selection in animals.".
- catalog subject "Sperm competition.".
- catalog subject "Spermatozoa physiology.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Competition, Choice and Sexual Conflict -- Paternity and Protection -- Genitalia -- Spern, Ejaculation, and Ova -- Copulation, Insemination and fertilization -- Mechanisms of Sperm Competition and Sperm Choice -- The Benefits of Polyandry.".
- catalog title "Promiscuity : an evolutionary history of sperm competition / Tim Birkhead.".
- catalog type "text".