Sexual Selection in Primates: New and Comparative Perspectives

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Author: Peter M. Kappeler

ISBN-10: 052153738X

ISBN-13: 9780521537384

Category: Sexual selection in animals

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Sexual Selection in Primates is a comprehensive summary of primate sexual interactions.

Foreword1Sexual selection in primates : review and selective preview32What is sexual selection?243Sex roles, contests for the control of reproduction, and sexual selection374Sexual selection and communication575Sexual selection and exaggerated sexual swellings of female primates716Female multiple mating and genetic benefits in humans : investigations of design907Sexual selection, behaviour and sexually transmitted diseases1178Mating conflict in primates : infanticide, sexual harassment and female sexuality1319Post-copulatory sexual selection in birds and primates15110Development and sexual selection in primates17511Alternative male reproductive strategies : male bimaturism in orangutans19612Sexual selection and the careers of primate males : paternity concentration, dominance-acquisition tactics and transfer decisions20813Sexual selection, measures of sexual selection, and sexual dimorphism in primates23014Sex ratios in primate groups25315Natural and sexual selection and the evolution of multi-level societies : insights from zebras with comparisons to primates266