Why read Mate Choice?

Book cover of Mate Choice: The Evolution of Sexual Decision Making from Microbes to Humans

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A major new look at the evolution of mating decisions in organisms from protozoans to humans The popular consensus on mate choice has long been that females select mates likely to pass good genes to offspring. In Mate Choice, Gil Rosenthal overturns much of this conventional wisdom. Providing the first…

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1 author picked Mate Choice as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Ingo Schlupp

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I loved reading this book and I have used it in teaching. This is the most comprehensive book on mate choice. It will be defining the field for a long time. Rosenthal looks at everything that has to do with mate choice and provides an authoritative view of mate choice. He looks at the complexity of mate choice in its full range. If you look for the most complete book on mate choice, this is it.

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