Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. I. Function
5. 1. Natural Selection and Coloration: Protection, Concealment, Advertisement, or Deception? 1
6. 2. Intraspecific Variation in Coloration 36
7. 3. Color Displays as Intrasexual Signals of Aggression and Dominance 87
8. 4. Female Mate Choice for Ornamental Coloration 137
9. 5. Function and Evolution of Color in Young Birds 201
10. 6. Benefits to Females of Assessing Color Displays 233
11. 7. Female Coloration: Review of Functional and Nonfunctional Hypotheses 280
12. II. Evolution
13. 8. Colorful Phenotypes of Colorless Genotypes: Toward a New Evolutionary Synthesis of Color Displays 349
14. 9. Ecological Explanations for Interspecific Variability in Coloration 380
15. 10. Adding Color to the Past: Ancestral-State Reconstruction of Coloration 417
16. Acknowledgments 457
17. Contributors 461
18. Species Index 465
19. Subject Index 473