Instructor: Jim Goodson
This seminar will cover a wide range of topics related to the
evolution and proximate mechanisms of mate choice -- including
sensory, hormonal and neural mechanisms; adaptive functions; and will
touch on a few related topics including the evolution of mating
systems, mate competition, etc. Students will be assigned primary
papers to present, with a heavy emphasis on papers by invited speakers
and papers related to the speakers work. Several speakers will be
co-hosted by other programs and thus these talks will occur outside
our regular meeting time, as indicated in the schedule below.
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These talks will be open to everyone!

FRIDAY, SEPT. 7. GAIL L. PATRICELLI  Section of Evolution & Ecology,
University of California - Davis
"Tradeoffs among multiple sexually-selected display traits in greater
sage-grouse: an experimental study using a robotic female."
Myers Hall room 130 at 4:30PM. Co-sponsored with EEB

MONDAY, OCT. 1  KEITH W. SOCKMAN   Physiological & Behavioral Ecology,
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
"Neuroecology of mate choice in songbirds"
Psychology Building room101 at 4:00PM  Co-sponsored with Program in
Neuroscience seminar series

FRIDAY, OCT. 26  MICHAEL S. WEBSTER  School of Biological Sciences,
Washington State University
"Birds not of a feather? Sexual selection and plumage signals in a
polymorphic Australian bird"
Myers Hall room130 at 4:30PM  Co-sponsored with EEB


FRIDAY, NOV. 16  ELIZABETH ADKINS-REGAN  Cornell University
"Mate choice in the socially monogamous zebra finch: development and
hormones"
Myers Hall room 130 at 4:30PM  Co-sponsored with EEB

FRIDAY, NOV. 30.  STEVEN W. GANGESTAD University of New Mexico
BA