Primate sexuality : comparative studies of the prosimians, monkeys, apes and human beings / Alan F. Dixson.

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Dixson, Alan F

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource : illustrations (some color)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191624186
0191624187
0191810029
9780191810022
1280593911
9781280593918
9786613623744
6613623741

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Primate sexuality.DDC classification:

599.81562 23

LOC classification:

QH481 .D56 2012eb

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Contents:

Darwin and friends -- Primate classification and evolution -- Mating systems -- Mating tactics and reproductive success -- Sexual behaviour and sexual response -- Socio-sexual, bisexual, and homosexual behaviour -- Sexual selection and sexually dimorphic traits -- Sperm competition -- Sexual selection and genitalic evolution -- The development of sexually dimorphic behaviour -- The ovarian cycle and sexual behaviour -- The neuroendocrine regulation of sexual behaviour in the adult female -- Hormones and sexual behavior in the adult male -- Socioendocrinology and sexual behaviour -- Human sexuality in primatological perspective.

Summary: "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."--Publisher.

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Previous edition: 1998.

"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."--Publisher.