10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EPIGAMIC»
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Animal Behavior Desk Reference: A Dictionary of Animal ...
epigamic display See display: epigamic display. ♢ epigamic selection See
selection: epigamic selection. ♢ epigamy See -gamy: epigamy. ♢ epigenesis See
-genesis: epigenesis. ♢ epigenetic approach n. An experimental approach to
animal ...
2
The Origin and Evolution of Humans and Humanness
If provisioning behaviors were to have been fixed by selection in a hominoid
species with very long birth spaces, what epigamic and behavioral choice
variables would we predict to have been established? Because, as we have
noted above, ...
D. Tab Rasmussen, University of California, Los Angeles. IGPP Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life, 1993
3
Primate Evolution and Human Origins
Since man displays a highly unusual mating structure, it is perhaps not surprising
that his epigamic, or perhaps parasexual, anatomy is equally unusual and fully
explicable by that mating structure. 1f pair bonding was fundamental and crucial
...
Agonistic or Epigamic Species Recognition Is coloration a signal of species
identity? If so, is it a signal to potential mates (epigamic species recognition] or to
potential competitors (agonistic species recognition]? The species-recognition ...
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Human Evolution: An Introduction to Mans Adaptations
There is reason to believe that pubic hair also has an epigamic function in men,
especially when it grows up the belly, and it may have been selected as an
attractive adornment in women too. There is a useful confirmation of the theory of
...
6
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
They are, in Julian Huxley's (1938) phraseology, epigamic selection, which
consists of the choices made between males and females, and intrasexual
selection, which comprises the interactions between males or, less commonly,
between ...
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Animal Signals: Signalling and Signal Design in Animal ...
Efficacy and content in signal design The tremendous diversity of epigamic
signals is largely unexplained. Although there is now a fair understanding of
sexual selection mechanisms that drive signal exaggeration and produce
variations in the ...
Yngve Espmark, Trond Amundsen, Gunilla Rosenqvist, 2000
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Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
Section 2 refers to epigamic differentiation, the symbols for males and females
becoming increasingly individualistic as time goes on, and leading to greater
selectivity in sexual pairing. This is reflected in the mating patterns shown in
Section 3 ...
Donald Johanson, Maitland Edey, 1990
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A Dictionary of Ethology
Epideictic display See Group selection Epigamic display Courtship behavior
performed in a situation of epigamic selection, that is, where individuals of one
sex compete with one another through display to be chosen as mates by
members of ...
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Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary ...
As a result of his dissatisfaction with sexual selection, Huxley suggested
replacing the outdated concept with two new ones.45 The first, “epigamic
selection,” would denote “display characters common to both sexes” necessary
for proper union ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EPIGAMIC»
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Green Mountain Communes: The Making of a Peoples' Vermont
The Chicago convention [and the ensuing riots] was the epigamic event where people realized the political movement was over –fractured ... «Anarkismo.net, Jan 08»
