Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments1What Is Cryptic Female Choice?32Selection on Cryptic Female Choice443Principal Mechanisms of Cryptic Female Choice804Other Mechanisms of Cryptic Female Choice1425Evidence That Cryptic Female Choice is Widespread, I: Copulatory Courtship and Related Phenomena2046Evidence That Cryptic Female Choice Is Widespread, II: Effects of Male Sexual Products on Females2567Evidence That Cryptic Female Choice Is Widespread, III: Male and Female Morphology3318Related Topics3679Evidence Ruling Out Cryptic Female Choice: Is It Common?39710Summary and Conclusions416References423Subject Index489Taxonomic Index492

About the Author

William G. Eberhard is a member of the scientific staff of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and Professor of Biology at the Escuela de Biologia of the Universidad de Costa Rica. He is the author of Sexual Selection and Animal Genitalia.

Reviews

"This book could change the way you think about females ... [It] is an easy, well-organized read... Female Control makes it clear that females surely must have partial or complete control over some aspects of reproduction... [It] is destined to be an influential book, and deserves to be a citation classic."--American Zoologist