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OverviewPrimate 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alan F. Dixson (School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Edition: 2nd Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 19.50cm , Height: 4.90cm , Length: 24.70cm Weight: 1.694kg ISBN: 9780199544646ISBN 10: 0199544646 Pages: 808 Publication Date: 26 January 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Darwin and friends 2: Primate classification and evolution 3: Mating systems 4: Mating tactics and reproductive success 5: Sexual behaviour and sexual response 6: Socio-sexual, bisexual, and homosexual behaviour 7: Sexual selection and sexually dimorphic traits 8: Sperm competition 9: Sexual selection and genitalic evolution 10: The development of sexually dimorphic behaviour 11: The ovarian cycle and sexual behaviour 12: The neuroendocrine regulation of sexual behaviour in the adult female 13: Hormones and sexual behaviour in the adult male 14: Socioendocrinology and sexual behaviour 15: Human sexuality in primatological perspective References IndexReviewsPrimate Sexuality: Comparative Studies of the Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and Humans was featured in The Quarterly Review of Biology. `Review from previous edition Alan Dixson has drawn together an impressive body of literature in this landmark volume.... Dixson's treatment is unusually inclusive across levels of analysis and activity. His reach is impressive, and he has sought to distil and review more than 2000 sources from a diverse literature.... Primate Sexuality is an essential starting point in this field, and a must for every primatologist's library.' Professor Jeanne Altmann, Nature `An extremely important source of information and ideas. There is no other book like it for primates, and I suspect none for any other Order.' Professor Alexander Harcourt, University of California, Davis, USA `A fascinating, comprehensive, up-to-date and unparalleled synthesis of our current knowledge about primate sexuality.' Dr Andreas Paul, University of Goettingen, Germany Author InformationAlan 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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