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

by Alan F. Dixson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191503429
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	01/26/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	36 MB
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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.

Table of Contents

1. Darwin and friends2. Primate classification and evolution3. Mating systems4. Mating tactics and reproductive success5. Sexual behaviour and sexual response6. Socio-sexual, bisexual, and homosexual behaviour7. Sexual selection and sexually dimorphic traits8. Sperm competition9. Sexual selection and genitalic evolution10. The development of sexually dimorphic behaviour11. The ovarian cycle and sexual behaviour12. The neuroendocrine regulation of sexual behaviour in the adult female13. Hormones and sexual behaviour in the adult male14. Socioendocrinology and sexual behaviour15. Human sexuality in primatological perspectiveReferencesIndex

Editorial Reviews

Primate Sexuality: Comparative Studies of the Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and Humans was featured in The Quarterly Review of Biology.

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