Challenging Darwin's theory of sexual selection

Daedalus

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 23-36

  Roughgarden, Joan ^a,b  

^a American Academy   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34248223593     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/daed.2007.136.2.23     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. J. Roughgarden, Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender and Sexuality in Nature and People (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004).
2. C. Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, facsimile edition (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1871).
3. J. Coyne, "Charm Schools," Times Literary Supplement, July 30, 2004.
4. The following exposition of the proposal is condensed from a recent review, which should be consulted for further detail and references to primary literature : J. Roughgarden, "Social Selection vs. Sexual Selection : Comparison of Hypotheses," in Daniel Kleinman and Jo Handelsman, eds., Controversies in Science, and Technology, vol. 2, Genetics of Race and Gender (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007).
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