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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Otros Autores: Muller, Martin N., 1971- (-), Wrangham, Richard W., 1948-
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press 2009.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31311192*spi
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 ... [et al.]
  • 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.