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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Milam, Erika Lorraine, 1974-     Subjects     Courtship in animals.     Evolution (Biology)     Courtship in animals -- Research -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Milam, Erika Lorraine, 1974-       by title:      Looking for a few go...         MARC Display

Looking for a few good males : female choice in evolutionary biology / Erika Lorraine Milam. by Milam, Erika Lorraine, 1974- Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Subjects Courtship in animals.   Evolution (Biology)   Courtship in animals -- Research -- History -- 20th century. ISBN:  9781421404028 (pbk.) 1421404028 Series:  Animals, history, culture. Description:  236 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Edition:  1st Johns Hopkins pbk. ed. Contents:  Beauty and the beast: Darwin, Wallace, and the animal-human boundary -- Progressive desire: rational evolution after the great war -- Branching out, scaling up: American experiments on behavior -- Courtly behavior: the rituals of British zoologists -- A science of rare males: the genetics of populations in the long 1960s -- Selective history: writing female choice into organismal biology. Requests:  0 Summary:  Approaching the topic from both biological and animal-studies perspectives, Milam not only presents a broad history of sexual selection -- from Darwin to sociobiology -- but also analyzes the animal-human continuum from the perspectives of sex, evolution, and behavior. She asks how social and cultural assumptions influence human-animal research and wonders about the implications of gender on scientific outcomes.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 591.562 Mi Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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