Primate Sexuality: Comparative Studies of the Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and HumansPrimate 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. |
Contents
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3 Mating systems | 28 |
4 Mating tactics and reproductive success | 68 |
5 Sexual behaviour and sexual response | 128 |
6 Sociosexual bisexual and homosexual behaviour | 200 |
7 Sexual selection and sexually dimorphic traits | 232 |
8 Sperm competition | 298 |
10 The development of sexually dimorphic behaviour | 379 |
11 The ovarian cycle and sexual behaviour | 430 |
12 The neuroendocrine regulation of sexual behaviour in the adult female | 480 |
13 Hormones and sexual behaviour in the adult male | 524 |
14 Socioendocrinology and sexual behaviour | 593 |
15 Human sexuality in primatological perspective | 624 |
References | 643 |
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