Sexual selection in primates : new and comparative perspectives / edited by Peter M. Kappeler & Carel P. van Schaik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kappeler, Peter M., editor.

Schaik, Carel van, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Primates--Behavior.

Primates.

Sexual selection in animals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 284 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sexual Selection in Primates provides an account of all aspects of sexual selection in primates, combining theoretical insights, comprehensive reviews of the primate literature and comparative perspectives from relevant work on other mammals, birds and humans. Topics include sex roles, sexual dimorphism in weapons, ornaments and armaments, sex ratios, sex differences in behaviour and development, mate choice, sexual conflict, sex-specific life history strategies, sperm competition and infanticide. The outcome of the evolutionary struggle between the sexes, the flexibility of roles and the leverage of females are discussed and emphasised throughout. Sexual Selection in Primates is aimed at graduates and researchers in primatology, animal behaviour, evolutionary biology and comparative psychology.

Contents:

Foreword / Robert L. Trivers

1. Sexual selection in primates : review and selective preview / Peter M. Kappeler and Carel P. van Schaik

2. What is sexual selection? / Timothy H. Clutton-Brock

3. Sex roles, contests for the control of reproduction and sexual selection / Patricia Adair Gowaty

4. Sexual selection and communication / Charles T. Snowdon

5. Sexual selection and exaggerated sexual swellings of female primates / Dietmar Zinner, Charles L. Nunn, Carel P. van Schaik and Peter M. Kappeler

6. Female multiple mating and genetic benefits in humans : investigations of design / Steven W. Gangestad and Randy Thornill

7. Sexual selection, behaviour and sexually transmitted disease / Charles L. Nunn and Sonia M. Altizer

8. Infanticide by males, sex and harassment in primates / Carel P. van Schail, Gauri R. Pradhan and Maria A. van Noordwijk

9. Post-copulatory sexual selection in birds and primates / Tim R. Birkhead and Peter M. Kappeler

10. Development and sexual selection in primates / Joanna M. Setchell and Phyllis C. Lee

11. Alternative male reproductive strategies : male bimaturism in orangutans / Suci Utami Atmoko and Jan A.R.A.M. van Hooff

12. Sexual selection and the careers of primate males : paternity concentration, dominance acquisition tactics and transfer decisions / Maria A. van Noordwijk and Carel P. van Schaik

13. Sexual selection, measures of sexual selection and sexual dimorphism in primates / J. Michael Plavcan

14. Sex ratios in primate groups / Joan B. Silk and Gillian R. Brown

15. Natural and sexual selection and the evolution of multi-level societies : insights from zebras with comparisons to primates / Daniel I. Rubenstein and Mace Hack.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-14165-6

1-280-47748-2

9786610477487

0-511-19489-7

0-511-19555-9

0-511-19345-9

0-511-32709-9

0-511-54245-3

0-511-19419-6

OCLC:

122930036