Book ID: CBB001020405

Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology (2010)

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Milam, Erika Lorraine (Author)


Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: 236 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Close study of the history of mid-20th-century evolutionary biology.


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Review Leng, Kirsten (2011) Review of "Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology". Gender and History (pp. 207-209). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Ruse, Michael
Hamlin, Kimberly Ann
Weindling, Paul J.
Veuille, Michel
Travis, Joseph
Stefano, Waldir
Journals
Science and Education
Journal of Experimental Zoology. Part B, Molecular and Developmental Evolution
Journal for General Philosophy of Science
Comptes Rendus Biologies
Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology
American Quarterly
Publishers
W.H. Freeman/Spektrum
University of Chicago Press
Universitat de València
Princeton University Press
Kluwer Academic
Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa
Concepts
Evolution
Darwinism
Genetics
Sexual selection
Natural selection
Biology
People
Darwin, Charles Robert
Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown
Senebier, Jean
Mendel, Gregor Johann
Jennings, Herbert Spencer
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
21st century
Places
Great Britain
United States
South America
Spain
Portugal
Germany
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