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Comparative Studies of the Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
Alan F. Dixson
ISBN: 9780199544646
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
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A comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge of the evolution and physiological control of sexual behaviour in the primates - the prosimians, monkeys, apes, and humans. No other book written on the subject exhibits such comparative breadth or technical depth. The new edition incorporates advances in the field over the last decade.
Primate Sexuality provides an authoritative and comprehensive synthesis of current research on the evolution and physiological control of sexual behaviour in the primates - prosimians, monkeys, apes, and human beings. This new edition has been fully updated and greatly expanded throughout to incorporate a decade of new research findings. It maintains the depth and scientific rigour of the first edition, and includes a new chapter on human sexuality, written from a comparative perspective. It contains 2600 references, almost 400 figures and photographs, and 73 tables.
| ISBN | 0199544646 | | Pages | 808 | | ISBN13 | 9780199544646 (What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 1694 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | | Published in | Oxford | | Imprint | Oxford University Press | | Height (mm) | 247 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 195 | | Publication date | 26 Jan 2012 | | Spine width (mm) | 49 | | DEWEY | 599.81562 | | Academic level | Postgraduate | | DEWEY edition | DC23 | |
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1. Darwin and friends; 2. Primate classification and evolution; 3. Mating systems; 4. Mating tactics and reproductive success; 5. Sexual behaviour and sexual response; 6. Socio-sexual, bisexual, and homosexual behaviour; 7. Sexual selection and sexually dimorphic traits; 8. Sperm competition; 9. Sexual selection and genitalic evolution; 10. The development of sexually dimorphic behaviour; 11. The ovarian cycle and sexual behaviour; 12. The neuroendocrine regulation of sexual behaviour in the adult female; 13. Hormones and sexual behaviour in the adult male; 14. Socioendocrinology and sexual behaviour; 15. Human sexuality in primatological perspective; References; Index
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