Current perspectives on sexual selection: what's left after Darwin?

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Part I. In Darwin's Footsteps : Historical Issues. 1. Sexual selection : why does it play such a large role in The descent of man? / Michael Ruse ; 2. Utility vs beauty : Darwin, Wallace and the subsequent history of the debate on sexual selection / Thierry Hoquet and Michael Levandowsky ; 3. Darwin on the proportion of the sexes and general fertility : discovery and rejection of sex ratio evolution and density-dependent selection / Michel Veuille ; 4. Sexual selection in the French school of population genetics : Claudine Petit (1920-2007) / Jean Gayon -- Part II. Current Challenges. 5. Sexual selection : is anything left? / Joan Roughgarden ; 6. Standing on Darwin's shoulders : the nature of selection hypotheses / Patricia Adair Gowaty ; 7. Sexual selection : the logical imperative / Geoff A. Parker and Tommaso Pizzari ; 8. Selfish genetic elements and sexual selection / Nina Wedell and Tom A.R. Price ; 9. Preference, rationality and interindividual variation : the persisting debate about female choice / Frank Cézilly ; 10. Reaction norms of sex and adaptive individual flexibility in reproductive decisions / Malin Ah-King and Patricia Adair Gowaty -- Part III. Prospects : Animal Aesthetics? 11. The role of sexual autonomy in evolution by mate choice / Richard O. Prum ; 12. The riddle of attractiveness : looking for an 'aesthetic sense' within the hedonic mind of the beholders / Michel Kreutzer and Verena Aebischer ; 13. Aesthetics and reinforcement : a behavioural approach to aesthetics / Shigeru Watanabe.