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 Vicedo, Marga (2011) Review of "Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 352). unapi

Review Thomas, Marion (2011) Review of "Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (p. 240). unapi

Review Borrello, Mark E. (2011) Review of "Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology". Journal of the History of Biology (p. 365). unapi

Review Dewsbury, Donald A. (2011) Review of "Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (pp. 204-206). unapi

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

Essay Review Richmond, Jesse (2012) Still Figuring Out Nature's Economy. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 62-70). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Ruse, Michael
Hamlin, Kimberly Ann
Glick, Thomas F.
Witt, Ulrich
Veuille, Michel
Travis, Joseph
Concepts
Evolution
Darwinism
Genetics
Sexual selection
Biology
Natural selection
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
21st century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Ukraine
South America
Spain
Portugal
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