Through the Looking Glass: I. Why Cross-Fertilize?
Book on the evolutionary problem of sexual reproduction
The following pages represent the first volume of a book. The main goal is to introduce the evolutionary problem of sexual reproduction with a focus on competition between sexual and asexual females. But I also incorporate some ideas on genetic polymorphism and phenotypic plasticity with the goal of exploring variation strategies
more generally. Finally, I try to weave in some history of the field along with some philosophy of science.
Front Matter
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Acknowledgements
I gratefully acknowledge helpful comments from Amrita Bhattacharya, Zoe Dinges, Kara Million, Deanna Soper, Mike Wade, Jukka Jokela, Dorota Paczesniak, Steve Howard, Lynda Delph, Clark Craddock, Robert Vrijenhoek, Jan McKenzie, Mike Winterbourn, Stuart West, Bob Holt, Oren Harman, and especially Maurine Neiman and her lab group at the University of Iowa. Additional comments are welcome by email.
Special thanks to Zoe Michelle Dinges (ZMD). Zoe redrew the figures, and she created the beautiful illustrations.
Special thanks also to Adam Mazel of Indiana University Libraries for preparing the document for online publication. I am also grateful to Bart Zijlstra and Gabe Harp for permission to use their original photographs.
This project was supported by the NSF OPUS program for the synthesis of biological research (DEB-1906465). I am also grateful to the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) for my stay as a partner
during 2022-2023.
Copyright and License
© 2024 Curtis M. Lively
Illustrations © 2024 Zoe Michelle Dinges
Unless otherwise indicated, the text of Through the Looking Glass: I. Why Cross-Fertilize? by Curtis M. Lively and the illustrations by Zoe Michelle Dinges are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License .
Publisher
Indiana University Bloomington Libraries Publishing
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Bloomington, IN 47405
How to Cite
Lively, Curtis M. 2024. Through the Looking Glass: I. Why Cross-Fertilize? Indiana University Bloomington Libraries Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5967/gbd3-ka07.