Sexual Selection in Primates

New and Comparative Perspectives

Peter Kappeler, Carel Van Schaik

284 pages, parution le 11/06/2004

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Résumé

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.

Contributors
Robert L. Trivers, Peter M. Kappeler, Carel P. van Schaik, Timothy H. Clutton-Brock, Patricia Adair Gowaty, Charles T. Snowdon, Dietmar Zinner, Charles L. Nunn, Peter M. Kappeler, Steven W. Gangestad, Randy Thornill, Sonia M. Altizer, Gauri R. Pradhan, Maria A. van Noordwijk, Tim R. Birkhead, Joanna M. Setchell, Phyllis C. Lee, Suci Utami Atmoko, Jan A. R. A. M. van Hooff, J. Michael Plavcan, Joan B. Silk, Gillian R. Brown, Daniel I. Rubenstein, Mace Hack

L'auteur - Carel Van Schaik

Carel van Schaik is Professor and Director of the Anthropological Institute & Museum, University of Zürich.

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Introduction
- Sexual selection in primates: review and selective preview
- What is sexual selection?
- Sex roles, contests for the control of reproduction, and sexual selection
Sexual signals: substrates and function
- Sexual selection and communication
- Sexual selection and exaggerated sexual swellings of female primates
- Female multiple mating and genetic benefits in humans: investigations of design
Sexual selection in action
- Sexual selection, behaviour and sexually transmitted diseases
- Mating conflict in primates: infanticide, sexual harassment and female sexuality
- Post-copulatory sexual selection in birds and primates
Development and consequences
- Development and sexual selection in primates
- Alternative male reproductive strategies: male bimaturism in orangutans
- Sexual selection and the careers of primate males: paternity concentration, dominance-acquisition tactics and transfer decisions
- Sexual selection, measures of sexual selection, and sexual dimorphism in primates
- Sex ratios in primate groups
- Natural and sexual selection and the evolution of multi-level societies: insights from zebras with comparisons to primates

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Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	Peter Kappeler, Carel Van Schaik
Parution	11/06/2004
Nb. de pages	284
Format	19 x 24,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	845g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521537384
ISBN13	978-0-521-53738-4