Infanticide and Parental CareStefano Parmigiani, Frederick S. Vom Saal First published in 1994. Infanticide is an extremely complex behavioral pattern that occurs throughout the animal kingdom and it must be considered not only in isolation but also from the viewpoint of an animal's care of its young. Infanticide and Parental Care will be of interest to zoologists, evolutionary biologists and biological anthropologists. The concept of infanticide is considered in different mammals such as humans, primates, pinnipeds, lions, dwarf mongooses and prairie dogs and in non-mammals including insects and birds. Infanticide and Parental Care also views the topic in different environmental conditions such as the natural habitat of an animal and animals kept in laboratory conditions. The wide implications of infanticide mean that this book will also be useful to historians, anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists. |
Contents
Fitness Tradeoffs in the History and Evolution | 3 |
The Role of Social Religious and Medical Prac | 43 |
The Psychology of Parenting in Evolutionary Per | 73 |
A Historical | 105 |
Stepparenthood and the Evolved Psychology | 121 |
Sexual Selec | 137 |
Test | 155 |
The | 199 |
Consequences and Counter | 277 |
The Dwarf | 301 |
Nepotism and Infanticide Among Prairie Dogs | 321 |
Infanticide and Protection of Young in House | 341 |
Behavioral Cycles and the Neural Timing | 365 |
Selective Allocation of Parental and Infanticidal | 397 |
Biparental Care and MaleFemale Relations | 427 |
Influ | 465 |