Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Preface Part I. Function Chapter 1. Natural Selection and Coloration: Protection, Concealment, Advertisement, or Deception? Chapter 2. Intraspecific Variation in Coloration Chapter 3. Color Displays as Intrasexual Signals of Aggression and Dominance Chapter 4. Female Mate Choice for Ornamental Coloration Chapter 5. Function and Evolution of Color in Young Birds Chapter 6. Benefits to Females of Assessing Color Displays Chapter 7. Female Coloration: Review of Functional and Nonfunctional Hypotheses Part II. Evolution Chapter 8. Colorful Phenotypes of Colorless Genotypes: Toward a New Evolutionary Synthesis of Color Displays Chapter 9. Ecological Explanations for Interspecific Variability in Coloration Chapter 10. Adding Color to the Past: Ancestral-State Reconstruction of Coloration Acknowledgments Contributors Species Index Subject Index Plates