Sexual Selection in Primates: New and

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.

Preface
Foreword Robert L. Trivers
Part I. Introduction: 1. Sexual selection in primates: review and selective preview Peter M. Kappeler and Carel P. van Schaik
2. What is sexual selection? Timothy H. Clutton-Brock
3. Sex roles, contests for the control of reproduction and sexual selection Patricia Adair Gowaty
Part II. Sexual Signals: Substrates and Function: 4. Sexual selection and communication Charles T. Snowdon
5. Sexual selection and exaggerated sexual swellings of female primates Dietmar Zinner, Charles L. Nunn, Carel P. van Schaik and Peter M. Kappeler
6. Female multiple mating and genetic benefits in humans: investigations of design Steven W. Gangestad and Randy Thornill
Part III. Sexual Selection in Action: 7. Sexual selection, behaviour and sexually transmitted disease Charles L. Nunn and Sonia M. Altizer
8. Infanticide by males, sex and harassment in primates Carel P. van Schail, Gauri R. Pradhan and Maria A. van Noordwijk
9. Post-copulatory sexual selection in birds and primates Tim R. Birkhead and Peter M. Kappeler
Part IV. Development and Consequences: 10. Development and sexual selection in primates Joanna M. Setchell and Phyllis C. Lee
11. Alternative male reproductive strategies: male bimaturism in orangutans Suci Utami Atmoko and Jan A. R. A. M. van Hooff
12. Sexual selection and the careers of primate males: paternity concentration, dominance acquisition tactics and transfer decisions Maria A. van Noordwijk and Carel P. van Schaik
13. Sexual selection, measures of sexual selection and sexual dimorphism in primates J. Michael Plavcan
14. Sex ratios in primate groups Joan B. Silk and Gillian R. Brown
15. Natural and sexual selection and the evolution of multi-level societies: insights from zebras with comparisons to primates Daniel I. Rubenstein and Mace Hack
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Sexual Selection in Primates: New and Comparative Perspectives

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