Infanticide by males and its implications / edited by Carel P. Van Schaik, Charles H. Janson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schaik, Carel van.

Janson, Charles Helmar.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Primates--Behavior.

Primates.

Infanticide in animals.

Behavior, Animal.

Medical Subjects:

Behavior, Animal.

Primates.

Physical Description:

xiv, 569 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2000]

Contents:

Foreword / Sarah B. Hrdy

Infanticide by males: prospectus / Carel P. van Schaik and Charles H. Janson

The holy wars about infanticide. Which side are you on? and why? / Volker Sommer

Infanticide by male primates: the sexual selection hypothesis revisited / Carel P. van Schaik

Vulnerability to infanticide by males: patterns among mammals / Carel P. van Schaik

Infanticide in red howlers: female group size, male membership, and a possible link to folivory / Carolyn M. Crockett and Charles H. Janson

Infanticide in hanuman langurs: social organization, male migration, and weaning age / Carola Borries and Andreas Koenig

Male infanticide and defense of infants in chacma baboons / Ryne A. Palombit, Dorothy L. Cheney, Julia Fischer ... [et al.]

Infanticide by males and female choice in wild Thomas's langurs / Romy Steenbeek

The evolution of infanticide in rodents: a comparative analysis / Daniel T. Blumstein

Infanticide by male birds / José P. Veiga

Prevention of infanticide: the perspective of infant primates / Adrian Treves

Infanticide and the evolution of male-female bonds in animals / Ryne A. Palombit

The other side of the coin: infanticide and the evolution of affiliative male-infant interactions in Old World primates / Andreas Paul, Signe Preuschoft, and Carel P. van Schaik

Female dispersal and infanticide avoidance in primates / Elisabeth H.M. Sterck and Amanda H. Korstjens

Reproductive patterns in eutherian mammals: adaptations against infanticide? / Maria A. van Noordwijk and Carel P. van Schaik

Paternity confusion and the ovarian cycles of female primates / Carel P. van Schaik, J. Keith Hodges, and Charles L. Nunn

Social evolution in primates: the relative roles of ecology and intersexual conflict / Charles L. Nunn and Carel P. van Schaik

Infanticide by female mammals: implications for the evolution of social systems / Leslie Digby

"The hate that love generated" - sexually selected neglect of one's own offspring in humans / Eckart Voland and Peter Stephan

The behavioral ecology of infanticide by males / Charles H. Janson and Carel P. van Schaik.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-554) and indexes.

ISBN:

0521772958

0521774985

OCLC:

43311698