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A TOUCHSTONE IN THE STUDY OF ADAPTATION 1
Author(s) -
Frank Steven A.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
evolution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.84
H-Index - 199
eISSN - 1558-5646
pISSN - 0014-3820
DOI - 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2002.tb00183.x
Subject(s) - citation , library science , biology , computer science
‘‘The introduction needs to be bolder’’ is what W. D. Hamilton said after looking at one of my first sex ratio manuscripts. He had scrawled in the margin: ‘‘Sex ratio has become a touchstone in the study of adaptation.’’ This sentence captured the spirit of the subject in 1984. How did sex ratio develop into such an important topic? The answer to this question places in context Ian Hardy’s new volume on sex ratios as the first major synthesis since Charnov’s (1982) monograph.