The Evolving Female : A Life History Perspective /

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A human female is born, lives her life, and dies within the space of a few decades, but the shape of her life has been strongly influenced by 50 million years of primate evolution and more than 100 million years of mammalian evolution. How the individual female plays out the stages of her life--from...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Zihlman, Adrienne L., Galloway, Alison, 1953-, Morbeck, Mary Ellen, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1997.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Frau.
Femmes > Évolution.
Homme > Origines.
Vergelijkende fysiologie.
Evolutie.
Vrouwen.
Frau
Evolution
Weibchen
Säugetiere
Women's studies > Biographical methods.
Women > Evolution.
Human evolution.
Females > Physiology.
Etudes sur les femmes > Methode biographique.
Femelles > Physiologie.
Femmes > Evolution.
Homme > Evolution.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Physical.
Études sur les femmes > Histoires de vie.
Homme > Évolution.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What is life history?
  • Life history, the individual, and evolution / Mary Ellen Morbeck
  • Changing views of female life histories / Linda Marie Fedigan
  • What it means to be a mammal
  • Sea lions, life history, and reproduction / Kathryn Ono
  • Life history and reproductive success of female northern elephant seals / Joanne Reiter
  • What it means to be a primate
  • Social relationships and life histories of primates / Barbara B. Smuts
  • Development of sex differences in nonhuman primates / Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa
  • The social life of female Japanese monkeys / Mary S. McDonald Pavelka
  • Natural history of apes : life-history features in females and males / Adrienne L. Zihlman
  • What it means to be a catarrhine
  • Reading life history in teeth, bones, and fossils / Mary Ellen Morbeck
  • The cost of reproduction and the evolution of postmenopausal osteoporosis / Alison Galloway
  • The biological origins of adipose tissue in humans / Caroline M. Pond
  • Female primates : fat or fit? / Robin McFarland
  • What it means to be a human
  • Women's bodies, women's lives : an evolutionary perspective / Adrienne L. Zihlman
  • Sex differences in human populations : change through time / Silvana M. Borgognini Tarli and Elena Repetto
  • Growing up female in a farmer community and a forager community / Gilda A. Morelli
  • Institutional, evolutionary, and demographic contexts of gender roles : a case study of!Kung bushmen / Patricia Draper
  • Women's work and energetics : a case study from Nepal / Catherine Panter-Brick
  • Flexibility and paradox : the nature of adaptation in human reproduction / Virginia J. Vitzthum
  • Life history, females, and evolution
  • Social intelligence and sexual reproduction : evolutionary strategies / Alison Jolly
  • Life history, females, and evolution : a commentary / Beverly McLeod.

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