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SEXUAL SELECTION IN PRIMATES: NEW AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES

Edited by Peter Kappeler and Carel van Schaik

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 emphasized throughout. Sexual Selection in Primates is aimed at
graduates and researchers in primatology, animal behaviour, evolutionary
biology and comparative psychology.

PETER KAPPELER is head of the Department of Behaviour and Ecology in the
Deutsches Primatenzentrum in Gottingen, Germany.

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

List of contributors   page vi
Foreword by Robert L. Trivers   ix
Preface   xiii

PART I  INTRODUCTION

  1     Sexual selection in primates: review and selective preview   3
Peter M. Kappeler and Carel P. van Schaik

  2     What is sexual selection?   24
Tim H. Clutton-Brock

  3     Sex roles, contests for the control of reproduction, and sexual
selection   37
Patricia Adair Gowaty

PART II  SEXUAL SIGNALS: SUBSTRATES AND FUNCTION

  4     Sexual selection and communication   57
Charles T. Snowdon

  5     Sexual selection and exaggerated sexual swellings of female
primates   71
Dietmar P. Zinner, Charles L. Nunn, Carel P. van Schaik and Peter M. Kappeler

  6     Female multiple mating and genetic benefits in humans:
investigations of design   90
Steven W. Gangestad and Randy Thornhill

PART III  SEXUAL SELECTION IN ACTION

  7     Sexual selection, behaviour and sexually transmitted diseases   117
Charles L. Nunn and Sonia M. Altizer

  8     Mating conflict in primates: infanticide, sexual harassment and
female sexuality   131
Carel P. van Schaik, Gauri R. Pradhan and Maria A. van Noordwijk

  9     Post-copulatory sexual selection in birds and primates   151
Tim R. Birkhead and Peter M. Kappeler

PART IV  DEVELOPMENT AND CONSEQUENCES

10      Development and sexual selection in primates   175
Joanna M. Setchell and Phyllis C. Lee

11      Alternative male reproductive strategies: male bimaturism in
orangutans   196
Suci Atmoko Utami 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   208
Maria A. van Noordwijk and Carel P. van Schaik

13      Sexual selection, measures of sexual selection, and sexual
dimorphism in primates   230
J. Michael Plavcan

14      Sex ratios in primate groups   253
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   266
Daniel I. Rubenstein and Mace Hack

Index   280

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Posted Date: 8/4/04