The evolving female : a life-history perspective / Mary Ellen Morbeck, Alison Galloway, and Adrienne L. Zihlman, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morbeck, Mary Ellen, 1945-

Galloway, Alison, 1953-

Zihlman, Adrienne L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human evolution.

Women--Evolution.

Women.

Females--Physiology.

Females.

Women's studies--Biographical methods.

Women's studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A human female is born, lives her life, and dies within the space of a few decades, but the shape of her life has been strongly influenced by 50 million years of primate evolution and more than 100 million years of mammalian evolution. How the individual female plays out the stages of her life--from infancy, through the reproductive period, to old age--and how these stages have been formed by a long evolutionary process, is the theme of this collection. Written by leading scholars in fields ranging from evolutionary biology to cultural anthropology, these essays together examine what it means to be female, integrating the life histories of marine mammals, monkeys, apes, and humans. The result is a fascinating inquiry into the similarities among the ways females of different species balance the need for survival with their role in reproduction and mothering.The Evolving Female offers an outlook integrating life history with an intimate examination of female life paths. Behavior, anatomy and physiology, growth and development, cultural identity of women, the individual, and the society are among the topics investigated. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Linda Fedigan, Kathryn Ono, Joanne Reiter, Barbara Smuts, Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, Mary McDonald Pavelka, Caroline Pond, Robin McFarland, Silvana Borgognini Tarli and Elena Repetto, Gilda Morelli, Patricia Draper, Catherine Panter-Brick, Virginia J. Vitzthum, Alison Jolly, and Beverly McLeod.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgments

What Is Life History?

Part I: Perspectives on Life-History Studies

1. Life History, the Individual, and Evolution / Morbeck, Mary Ellen

2. Changing Views of Female Life Histories / Fedigan, Linda Marie

Part II: Natural History and Life-History Studies: The Mammals

Introduction: What It Means to Be a Mammal

3. Sea Lions, Life History, and Reproduction / Ono, Kathryn

4. Life History and Reproductive Success of Female Northern Elephant Seals / Reiter, Joanne

Part III: Natural History and Life-History Studies: The Primates

Introduction: What It Means to Be a Primate

5. Social Relationships and Life Histories of Primates / Smuts, Barbara B.

6. Development of Sex Differences in Nonhuman Primates / Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, Mariko

7. The Social Life of Female Japanese Monkeys / McDonald Pavelka, Mary S.

8. Natural History of Apes: Life-History Features in Females and Males / Zihlman, Adrienne L.

Part IV: Anatomy, Physiology, and Variation: The Catarrhines

Introduction: What It Means to Be a Catarrhine

9. Reading Life History in Teeth, Bones, and Fossils / Morbeck, Mary Ellen

10. The Cost of Reproduction and the Evolution of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis / Galloway, Alison

11. The Biological Origins of Adipose Tissue in Humans / Pond, Caroline M.

12. Female Primates: Fat or Fit? / McFarland, Robin

Part V: Women in Human Societies

Introduction: What It Means to Be a Human

13. Women's Bodies, Women's Lives: An Evolutionary Perspective / Zihlman, Adrienne L.

14. Sex Differences in Human Populations: Change through Time / Borgognini Tarli, Silvana M. / Repetto, Elena

15. Growing Up Female in a Farmer Community and a Forager Community / Morelli, Gilda A.

16. Institutional, Evolutionary, and Demographic Contexts of Gender Roles: A Case Study of !Kung Bushmen / Draper, Patricia

17. Women's Work and Energetics: A Case Study from Nepal / Panter-Brick, Catherine

18. Flexibility and Paradox: The Nature of Adaptation in Human Reproduction / Vitzthum, Virginia J.

Part VI: Life History, Females, and Evolution

Introduction: Life History, Females, and Evolution

19. Social Intelligence and Sexual Reproduction: Evolutionary Strategies / Jolly, Alison

20. Life History, Females, and Evolution: A Commentary / McLeod, Beverly

Literature Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-325) and index.

ISBN:

9786612753091

9781282753099

1282753096

9781400822065

1400822068

OCLC:

700688274