Peter M. Kappeler / Carel P. van Schaik (eds.)

Sexual Selection in Primates

New and Comparative Perspectives
Herausgeber: Kappeler, Peter M.; Schaik, Carel P. van

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Produktbeschreibung

Sexual Selection in Primates provides an up-to-date 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.

Table of contents:
Preface; Foreword Robert L. Trivers; Part I. Introduction: 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; Part II. Sexual Signals: Substrates and Function: 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; Part III. Sexual Selection in Action: 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; Part IV. Development and Consequences: 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; Index.

Sexual Selection in Primates is a book about primate sexual strategies. This volume provides the first comprehensive summary of the various forms of communication and behaviour and their consequences. Sexual Selection in Primates is aimed at graduates and researchers in primatology, animal behaviour, evolutionary biology and comparative psychology.

Sexual Selection in Primates is a book about primate sexual interactions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9780521537384
• ISBN-10: 052153738X
• Artikelnr.: 21749486

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Foreword Robert L. Trivers; Preface; Part I.
Introduction: 1. Sexual selection in primates: review and selective preview
Peter M. Kappeler and Carel P. van Schaik; 2. What is sexual selection? Tim
H. Clutton-Brock; 3. Sex roles, contests for the control of reproduction
and sexual selection Patricia Adair Gowaty; Part II. Sexual Signals:
Substrates and Function: 4. Sexual selection and communication Charles T.
Snowdon; 5. Sexual selection and exaggerated sexual swellings of female
primates Dietmar P. 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 Thornhill; Part III.
Sexual Selection in Action: 7. Sexual selection, behaviour and sexually
transmitted diseases Charles L. Nunn and Sonia M. Altizer; 8. Mating
conflict in primates: infanticide, sexual harassment and female sexuality
Carel P. van Schaik, Gauri R. Pradhan and Maria A. van Noordwijk; 9.
Post-copulatory sexual selection in birds and primates Tim R. Birkhead and
Peter M. Kappeler; Part IV. Development and Consequences: 10. Development
and sexual selection in primates Joanna M. Setchell and Phyllis C. Lee ;
11. Alternative male reproductive strategies: male bimaturism in orangutans
Suci Atmoko Utami 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; Index.