Sexual Selection in Primates : New and Comparative Perspectives (Paperback)

List of contributors; Foreword Robert L. Trivers; Preface; 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? Tim 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 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 Steven W. Gangestad and Randy Thornhill; Part III. Sexual Selection in Action: 7. Sexual selection, behaviour and sexually transmitted diseases Charles L. Nunn and Sonia M. Altizer; 8. Mating conflict in primates: infanticide, sexual harassment and female sexuality Carel P. van Schaik, 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 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 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; Index.