Sexual Selection in Primates: New and Comparative Perspectives - Couverture souple

Kappeler, Peter M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 052153738X ISBN 13 : 9780521537384

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

PETER KAPPELER is Head of the Department of Behaviour and Ecology in the Deutsches Primatenzentrum in Göttingen, Germany.

CAREL VAN SCHAIK is a Professor in the Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy at Duke University, North Carolina.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 052153738X
• ISBN 13: 9780521537384
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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