Format:
1 online resource (300 pages)
Edition:
2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780511193453
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0511193459
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052153738X
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- INFANTICIDE, SPERM COMPETITION -- SEXUAL SELECTION AND ITS CORRELATES -- THE SEX RATIO, SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES -- A MALE DIMORPHISM, A PARALLEL UNGULATE -- Preface -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Sexual selection in primates: review and selective preview -- INTRODUCTION -- SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX -- COMPETITION FOR MATES -- THE MALE PERSPECTIVE OF COMPETITIVE SCENARIOS -- MECHANISMS OF MATING COMPETITION -- Receiving and sending signals -- Physical prowess and dominance -- Inhibition and alternative tactics -- Copulatory and post-copulatory mechanisms -- MATE CHOICE -- FEMALE CHOICE IN PRIMATES -- VARIANT SEX ROLES AND SEXUAL CONFLICT -- COMPETITIVE FEMALES -- CHOOSY MALES -- SEXUAL CONFLICT -- CONCLUSIONS AND PROSPECTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 2 What is sexual selection? -- INTRODUCTION -- A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEXUAL SELECTION -- THERE IS ONLY ONE SELECTION -- TWENTIETH-CENTURY SEXUAL SELECTION -- A ROUGH GUIDE TO SEXUAL SELECTION -- REFERENCES -- 3 Sex roles, contests for the control of reproduction, and sexual selection -- INTRODUCTION -- DISCRIMINATING FEMALES AND COMPETITIVE MALES MAY RESULT IN MALE SEXUAL SELECTION -- ANISOGAMY AND PARENTAL INVESTMENT FAVOURED CHOOSY FEMALES AND INDISCRIMINATE MALES -- SEXUALLY ARDENT FEMALES CHALLENGED THE MYTH OF THE COY FEMALE -- RANDOM FORCES CREATE VARIANCE DIFFERENCES IN REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS WITHIN AND BETWEEN THE SEXES -- THE HYPOTHESIS OF FLEXIBLE MATING STRATEGIES AND SWITCHABLE SEX ROLES -- EMPIRICAL FAILURES OF PARENTAL INVESTMENT THEORY -- COMPETITIVE FEMALES IN CONTESTS WITH MALES OVER THE CONTROL OF REPRODUCTION -- VARIATION IN OFFSPRING VIABILITY FUELS SEXUAL SELECTION FAVOURING FEMALE CONTROL OF REPRODUCTION -- THINKING ABOUT SEXUAL SELECTION -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Content:
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
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; INFANTICIDE, SPERM COMPETITION; SEXUAL SELECTION AND ITS CORRELATES; THE SEX RATIO, SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; A MALE DIMORPHISM, A PARALLEL UNGULATE; Preface; 1 Sexual selection in primates: review and selective preview; 2 What is sexual selection?; 3 Sex roles, contests for the control of reproduction, and sexual selection; 4 Sexual selection and communication; 5 Sexual selection and exaggerated sexual swellings of female primates; 6 Female multiple mating and genetic benefits in humans: investigations of design
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7 Sexual selection, behaviour and sexually transmitted diseases8 Mating conflict in primates: infanticide, sexual harassment and female sexuality; 9 Post-copulatory sexual selection in birds and primates; 10 Development and sexual selection in primates; 11 Alternative male reproductive strategies: male bimaturism in orangutans; 12 Sexual selection and the careers of primate males: paternity concentration, dominance-acquisition tactics and transfer decisions; 13 Sexual selection, measures of sexual selection, and sexual dimorphism in primates; 14 Sex ratios in primate groups
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15 Natural and sexual selection and the evolution of multi-level societies: insights from zebras with comparisons to primatesIndex
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521537384
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521537384
Additional Edition:
Print version Sexual Selection in Primates : New and Comparative Perspectives
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Author information:
Kappeler, Peter M. 1959-
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