Sexual selection in primates : new and comparative perspectives / edited by Peter M. Kappeler & Carel P. van Schaik.
Sexual Selection in Primates, which provides the first comprehensive summary of the various forms of communication and behaviour and their consequences, is aimed at graduates and researchers in primatology, animal behaviour, evolutionary biology and comparative psychology.
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2004.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Introduction. Sexual selection in primates: review and selective preview
- What is sexual selection?
- Sex roles, contests for the control of reproduction, and sexual selection
- pt. 2. Sexual Signals: Substrates and Functions. Sexual selection and communication
- Sexual selection and exaggerated sexual swellings of female primates
- Female multiple mating and genetic benefits in humans: investigations of design
- pt. 3. 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
- pt. 4. 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.