Primate Sexuality: Comparative Studies of the Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and Humans

Alan F. Dixson

OUP Oxford, Jan 26, 2012 - Science - 808 pages

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.

Contents

• 1 Darwin and friends: 1
• 2 Primate classification and evolution: 7
• 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
• 9 Sexual selection and genitalic evolution: 334
• 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
• Index: 739

About the author

Alan Dixson was educated in England at the University of Nottingham, where he obtained a BSc in Zoology (1970) and at the University of Birmingham Medical School, where he was awarded a PhD (1973) and a DSc in Biological Sciences (1993). His research has involved comparative studies of reproductive biology and the evolution of sexuality in primates and in other mammals. He has held posts at the Zoological Society of London (1976-1983), Medical Research Council UK (1983-1999), International Medical Research Centre in Gabon (1989-1992), Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge (1993-1998) and was Director of Conservation and Science at the Zoological Society of San Diego in the USA (1999- 2005). He is currently a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand. Alan Dixson has authored, or co-authored, more than 140 papers and books.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Primate Sexuality: Comparative Studies of the Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
• Author: Alan F. Dixson
• Edition: 2
• Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2012
• ISBN: 0191624187, 9780191624186
• Length: 808 pages
• Subjects: Science / Life Sciences / Biology; Science / Life Sciences / Evolution; Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General; Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / Primatology