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020 a| 9780801894190 (hardcover : alk. paper);

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100 1 a| Milam, Erika Lorraine,d| 1974-=| ^A1027428;

245 10 a| Looking for a few good males :b| female choice in evolutionary biology /c| Erika Lorraine Milam.;

260 a| Baltimore :b| Johns Hopkins University Press,c| 2010.;

300 a| 236 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm.;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

490 1 a| Animals, history, culture;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Beauty and the beast: Darwin, Wallace, and the animal-human boundary -- Progressive desire: rational evolution after the great war -- Branching out, Scaling up: American experiments on behavior -- Courtly behavior: the rituals of British zoologists -- A science of rare males: the genetics of populations in the long 1960s -- Selective history: writing female choice into organismal biology.;

520 a| Approaching the topic from both biological and animal-studies perspectives, Milam not only presents a broad history of sexual selection -- from Darwin to sociobiology -- but also analyzes the animal-human continuum from the perspectives of sex, evolution, and behavior. She asks how social and cultural assumptions influence human-animal research and wonders about the implications of gender on scientific outcomes.;

650 0 a| Courtship in animals.=| ^A82386;

650 0 a| Evolution (Biology)=| ^A273017;

830 0 a| Animals, history, culture.=| ^A526797;

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Looking for a few good males : female choice in evolutionary biology / Erika Lorraine Milam.

Author/creator	Milam, Erika Lorraine, 1974-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Description	236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Courtship in animals. Evolution (Biology) Courtship in animals--Research. --History. --20th century.

Series	Animals, history, culture Animals, history, culture. ^A526797
Contents	Beauty and the beast: Darwin, Wallace, and the animal-human boundary -- Progressive desire: rational evolution after the great war -- Branching out, Scaling up: American experiments on behavior -- Courtly behavior: the rituals of British zoologists -- A science of rare males: the genetics of populations in the long 1960s -- Selective history: writing female choice into organismal biology.
Abstract	Approaching the topic from both biological and animal-studies perspectives, Milam not only presents a broad history of sexual selection -- from Darwin to sociobiology -- but also analyzes the animal-human continuum from the perspectives of sex, evolution, and behavior. She asks how social and cultural assumptions influence human-animal research and wonders about the implications of gender on scientific outcomes.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2009023833
ISBN	9780801894190 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	0801894190 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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