Sexual Selection in Primates
New and Comparative Perspectives
Published on 13. May 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-0-521-53738-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"The book contains useful information for both novices and experts, with a good mix of theory and data. Anyone interested in either sexual selection or primates will find this volume useful, and it should be required reading for everyone interested in both topics." The Quarterly Review, Thore Bergman, Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
14 Tables, unspecified; 1 Halftones, unspecified; 45 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
585 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-53738-4 (9780521537384)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Peter M. Kappeler | Carel P. van Schaik
Sexual Selection in Primates
New and Comparative Perspectives
E-Book
06/2006
1st Edition
Cambridge University Press
€44.49
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Persons
PETER KAPPELER is Head of the Department of Behaviour and Ecology in the Deutsches Primatenzentrum in Goettingen, Germany. CAREL VAN SCHAIK is a Professor in the Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy at Duke University, North Carolina.
Content
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.