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Sex allocation
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ISBN: 9780691089638 9780691089645 0691089647 0691089639 1282458620 9786612458620 1400832012 9781400832019 9781282458628 6612458623 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of theoretical and empirical studies of sex allocation, transforming how we understand the allocation of resources to male and female reproduction in vertebrates, invertebrates, protozoa, and plants. In this landmark book, Stuart West synthesizes the vast literature on sex allocation, providing the conceptual framework the field has been lacking and demonstrating how sex-allocation studies can shed light on broader questions in evolutionary and behavioral biology. West clarifies fundamental misconceptions in the application of theory to empirical data. He examines the field's successes and failures, and describes the research areas where much important work is yet to be done. West reveals how a shared underlying theoretical framework unites findings of sex-ratio variation across a huge range of life forms, from malarial parasites and hermaphroditic worms to sex-changing fish and mammals. He shows how research on sex allocation has been central to many critical questions and controversies in evolutionary and behavioral biology, and he argues that sex-allocation research serves as a key testing ground for different theoretical approaches and can help resolve debates about social evolution, parent-offspring conflict, genomic conflict, and levels of selection. Certain to become the defining book on the subject for the next generation of researchers, Sex Allocation explains why the study of sex allocation provides an ideal model system for advancing our understanding of the constraints on adaptation among all living things in the natural world.

Molecular Genetics of Sex Determination
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ISBN: 0127289607 1322054975 1483295583 Year: 1994 Publisher: San Diego (Calif.) Academic Press

Sex and gender in paleopathological perspective
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ISBN: 0521021219 9780521021210 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press

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The theory of sex allocation
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ISBN: 0691083126 0691083118 Year: 1982 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press

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Crustacean sexual biology
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ISBN: 0231068808 9780231068802 Year: 1991 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press

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Human sexual dimorphism
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ISBN: 0850662672 Year: 1985 Volume: 24 Publisher: London ; Philadelphia Taylor & Francis

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Courtesans & fishcakes : the consuming passions of classical Athens
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ISBN: 9780006863434 9780002555913 0006863434 0002555913 Year: 1998 Publisher: Hammersmith, London Fontana Press

Evolution and diversity of sex ratio in insects and mites
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ISBN: 0412022117 9780412022210 9780412022111 0412022214 Year: 1993 Publisher: New York London Chapman & Hall

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