| Title |
Infanticide by males and its implications / edited by Carel P. Van Schaik, Charles H. Janson. |
| OCLC |
43311698 |
| ISBN |
0521772958 |
| Publisher |
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2000] |
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©2000 |
| Description |
xiv, 569 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Primates -- Behavior.
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Infanticide in animals.
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Medical
Subject heading/s |
Behavior, Animal.
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Primates.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-554) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Sarah B. Hrdy -- Infanticide by males: prospectus / Carel P. van Schaik and Charles H. Janson -- The holy wars about infanticide. Which side are you on? and why? / Volker Sommer -- Infanticide by male primates: the sexual selection hypothesis revisited / Carel P. van Schaik -- Vulnerability to infanticide by males: patterns among mammals / Carel P. van Schaik -- Infanticide in red howlers: female group size, male membership, and a possible link to folivory / Carolyn M. Crockett and Charles H. Janson -- Infanticide in hanuman langurs: social organization, male migration, and weaning age / Carola Borries and Andreas Koenig -- Male infanticide and defense of infants in chacma baboons / Ryne A. Palombit, Dorothy L. Cheney, Julia Fischer ... [et al.] -- Infanticide by males and female choice in wild Thomas's langurs / Romy Steenbeek -- The evolution of infanticide in rodents: a comparative analysis / Daniel T. Blumstein -- Infanticide by male birds / José P. Veiga -- |
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Prevention of infanticide: the perspective of infant primates / Adrian Treves -- Infanticide and the evolution of male-female bonds in animals / Ryne A. Palombit -- The other side of the coin: infanticide and the evolution of affiliative male-infant interactions in Old World primates / Andreas Paul, Signe Preuschoft, and Carel P. van Schaik -- Female dispersal and infanticide avoidance in primates / Elisabeth H.M. Sterck and Amanda H. Korstjens -- Reproductive patterns in eutherian mammals: adaptations against infanticide? / Maria A. van Noordwijk and Carel P. van Schaik -- Paternity confusion and the ovarian cycles of female primates / Carel P. van Schaik, J. Keith Hodges, and Charles L. Nunn -- Social evolution in primates: the relative roles of ecology and intersexual conflict / Charles L. Nunn and Carel P. van Schaik -- Infanticide by female mammals: implications for the evolution of social systems / Leslie Digby -- "The hate that love generated" - sexually selected neglect of one's own offspring in humans / Eckart Voland and Peter Stephan -- The behavioral ecology of infanticide by males / Charles H. Janson and Carel P. van Schaik. |
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