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Sexual coercion in primates and humans : an evolutionary perspective on male aggression against females /

"Conflict between males and females over reproduction is ubiquitous in nature due to fundamental differences between the sexes in reproductive rates and investment in offspring. In only a few species, however, do males strategically employ violence to control female sexuality. Why are so many o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Muller, Martin N., 1971- (Editor ), Wrangham, Richard W., 1948- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Male aggression and sexual coercion of females in primates / Martin N. Muller, Sonya M. Kahlenberg, and Richard W. Wrangham
  • Evolution of sexual coercion with respect to sexual selection and sexual conflict theory / Jana J. Watson-Capps
  • Intersexual conflict in primates : infanticide, paternity allocation, and the role of coercion / Parry Clarke, Gauri Pradhan, and Carel van Schaik
  • Orangutans : sexual coercion without sexual violence / Cheryl D. Knott
  • Male aggression against females in mountain gorillas : courtship or coercion? / Martha M. Robbins
  • The causes and consequences of male aggression directed at female chacma baboons / Dawn M. Kitchen [and others]
  • Female-directed aggression and social control in spider monkeys / Andres Link, Anthony Di Fiore, and Stephanie N. Spehar
  • Male aggression against females and sexual coercion in chimpanzees / Martin N. Muller, Sonya M. Kahlenberg, and Richard W. Wrangham
  • Sexual coercion in dolphin consortships : a comparison with chimpanzees / Richard C. Connor and Nicole L. Vollmer
  • Male aggression toward females in hamadryas baboons : conditioning, coercion, and control / Larissa Swedell and Amy Schreier
  • Coercive violence by human males against their female partners / Margo Wilson and Martin Daly
  • The political significance of gender violence / Lars Rodseth and Shannon A. Novak
  • Intimate wounds : craniofacial trauma in women and female chimpanzees / Shannon A. Novak and Mallorie A. Hatch
  • Human rape : revising evolutionary perspectives / Melissa Emery Thompson
  • "Friendship" with males : a female counterstrategy to infanticide in chacma baboons of the Okavango Delta / Ryne Palombit
  • The absence of sexual coercion in bonobos / Tommaso Paoli
  • Sexual coercion, patriarchal violence, and law / Diane L. Rosenfeld
  • Sexual coercion in humans and other primates : the road ahead / Richard W. Wrangham and Martin N. Muller.