Sexual selection in primates: New and comparative perspectives

Abstract

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.