Research Catalog

Title

Sexual selection and reproductive competition in primates : new perspectives and directions / edited by Clara B. Jones.

Publication

Norman, Okla. : American Society of Primatologists, [2003], ©2003.

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Additional Authors

• Jones, Clara B.
• American Society of Primatologists.

Description

xx, 647 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Special topics in primatology ; v. 3

Uniform Title

Special topics in primatology ; v. 3.

Subjects

• Primates > reproduction
• Primates > Reproduction
• Sexual selection in animals
• Primates > Behavior

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• A brief history of the study of sexual selection and reproductive competition in primatology / Nazima Shahnoor & Clara B. Jones -- Demography and the temporal scale of sexual selection / Karen B. Strier -- Models of reproductive skew applied to primates / Reinmar Hager -- Alternative reproductive behaviors in primates : towards general principles / Clara B. Jones & Govindasamy Agoramoorthy -- How color may guide the primate world : possible relationships between sexual selection and sexual dichromatism / Melissa S. Gerald -- Sex ratio bias from the effects of parity on the reproductive characteristics of Garnett's bushbaby : implications for sexual selection / Sheree Watson ... [et al.] -- Reproductive competition among female common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) : proximate and ultimate causes / Wendy Saltzman -- Interfering with others : female-female reproductive competition in Pan paniscus / Hilde Vervaecke, Jeroen Stevens & Linda Van Elsacker -- The potential for cryptic female choice in primates : behavioral, anatomical, and physiological considerations / DeeAnn M. Reeder -- Scent marking, paternal care, and sexual selection in callitrichines / Eckhard W. Heymann -- Re-evaluating the sexual selection hypothesis for infanticide by Alouatta males / Carolyn M. Crockett -- Male infanticide in wild savanna baboons : adaptive significance and intraspecific variation / Ryne A. Palombit -- The evolution of alternative reproductive morphs in male primates / Joanna M. Setchell -- Sperm competition and the function of male masturbation in nonhuman primates / Ruth Thomsen, Joseph Soltis, & Christian Teltscher -- Sexual selection and foraging behavior in male and female tamarins and marmosets / Júlio César Bicca-Marques --
• Behavioral aspects of sexual selection in mountain gorillas / Martha M. Robbins -- Hybrid zones and sexual selection : insights from the Awash baboon hybrid zone (Papio hamadryas anubis x P. h. hamadryas) / Thore J. Bergman & Jacinta C. Beehner -- Testing some theoretical expectations of sexual selection versus the recognition species concept in the speciose macaques of Sulawesi, Indonesia / Jeffrey W. Froehlich.

ISBN

• 0965830128 (pbk.)
• 9780965830126 (pbk.)

LCCN

• 2003102240
• 99820178837

OCLC

• 53846933
• ocm53846933\
• SCSB-5400942

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries