Mate Choice is an extremely thorough gathering of studies and analysis of how organisms choose mates. Many fields of science, including evolution, behavior, statistics, and economics, are used to explain how organisms go about choosing a mate. In the first chapter, the author distinguishes mate choice from sexual selection. He argues that mate choice is not as closely tied to sexual selection as is often implied, but that “mate-choice decisions can be adaptive, non-adaptive, or maladaptive” (p. 13). The first third of the book covers the history, definition, measurements, and studies on mate choice. The middle section covers variations in mate choice as well as how choice is affected by ecological interactions. The rest of the book describes how mate choice affects and is affected by evolution, including sexual selection. The final chapters specifically address mate choice among humans, and the author finishes with a suggested theory about how mates...

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