Reproductive Biology of the Great Apes
Reproductive Biology of the Great Apes

Author: Charles Graham

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2012-12-02

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 0323149715

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Reproductive Biology of the Great Apes: Comparative and Biomedical Perspectives discusses the great ape reproduction. The book opens with the menstrual cycle of apes as a good foundation for the subject areas that follow. Accordingly, Chapter 2 focuses on the endocrine changes during the stage of pregnancy among apes, specifically the hormonal changes in chimpanzee. Chapter 3 deals mainly on the condition postpartum amenorrhea. In Chapter 4, the reproductive and endocrine development – from fetal development, infancy, juvenile, to puberty – is discussed. Chapters 5 and 6 thoroughly discuss the female and male ape's genital tract and their secretions. The sole topic of Chapter 7 deals mainly with the comparative aspects of ape steroid hormone metabolism. Meanwhile, Chapter 8 tackles laboratory research on apes' sexual behavior. The succeeding chapters talk about the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan reproduction in the wild. Chapters 12 and 13 basically look upon the behaviors of the great apes, specifically intermale competition and sexual selection. The next chapters (14 and 15) look at the necessity of breeding and managing apes in captivity to ensure their continued survival. Lastly, Chapter 16 highlights the significance and great value of apes as models and comparative study in human reproduction. This book will be of great use to human physiologists, comparative anatomists and zoologists, primatologists, ape breeders, and biomedical scientists.

Sexual Selection in Primates
Sexual Selection in Primates

Author: Peter M. Kappeler

Publisher:

Published: 2004-05-13

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780521537384

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Sexual Selection in Primates is a comprehensive summary of primate sexual interactions.

South American Primates
South American Primates

Author: Paul A. Garber

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-11-13

Total Pages: 565

ISBN-13: 0387787054

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This will be the first time a volume will be compiled focusing on South American monkeys as models to address and test critical issues in the study of nonhuman primates. In addition, the volume will serve an important compliment to the book on Mesoamerican primates recently published in the series under the DIPR book series. The book will be of interest to a broad range of scientists in various disciplines, ranging from primatology, to animal behavior, animal ecology, conservation biology, veterinary science, animal husbandry, anthropology, and natural resource management. Moreover, although the volume will highlight South American primates, chapters will not simply review particular taxa or topics. Rather the focus of each chapter is to examine the nature and range of primate responses to changes in their ecological and social environments, and to use data on South American monkeys to address critical theoretical questions in the study of primate behavior, ecology, and conservation. Thus, we anticipate that the volume will be widely read by a broad range of students and researchers interested in prosimians, New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, apes, humans, as well as animal behavior and tropical biology.

Seasonality in Primates
Seasonality in Primates

Author: Diane K. Brockman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-11-17

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 9780521820691

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This book explores how seasonal variation in resource abundance might have driven primate and human evolution.

Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans
Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans

Author: Martin N. Muller

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-19

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 9780674033245

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This book presents extensive field research and analysis to evaluate sexual coercion in a range of species—including all of the great apes and humans—and to clarify its role in shaping social relationships among males, among females, and between the sexes.

Primates in Perspective
Primates in Perspective

Author: Christina J. Campbell

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 884

ISBN-13:

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This volume contains forty-seven original essays by seventy leading researchers, offering an overview of all major areas of primatology. Arranged in six sections, the text begins with an introduction to primatology and a review of the natural history of the major taxonomic groups within the order Primates. It goes on to cover methodologies and research design for both field and captive settings; primate reproduction; primate ecology and conservation and their roles in the daily lives of primates; and such aspects of social behavior and intelligence as communication, learning, and cognition. The volume ends with a concluding chapter by the editors that discuss the future of primatological research.

Comparative Primate Socioecology
Comparative Primate Socioecology

Author: P. C. Lee

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-07-19

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780521004244

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Methodologies as applied to recent primate research that will provide new approaches to comparative research.

Biology and Feminism
Biology and Feminism

Author: Lynn Hankinson Nelson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-09-07

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1107090180

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A balanced and accessible introduction to the engagements that feminist scientists and science scholars undertake with a variety of biological sciences.

The Primate Origins of Human Nature
The Primate Origins of Human Nature

Author: Carel P. Van Schaik

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-01-26

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 0470147636

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The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral ecology and primate psychology, classical physical anthropology and evolutionary psychology of humans. However, unlike similar books, it strives to define the human species relative to our living and extinct relatives, and thus highlights uniquely derived human features. The book features a truly multi-disciplinary, multi-theory, and comparative species approach to subjects not usually presented in textbooks focused on humans, such as the evolution of culture, life history, parenting, and social organization.