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Adult Male Replacements
Author_Glenn Hausfater
Author_Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
behavior
behavioral ecology
Belding's Ground Squirrels
Belding’s Ground Squirrels
Brood Reduction
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Category=JHM
Clutch Size
DBA Female
DBA Male
entellus
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evolutionary biology
evolutionary mechanisms of offspring mortality
FEMALE COUNTERSTRATEGIES
Filial Cannibalism
Hanuman Langurs
Human Infanticide
hypothesis
Infant Killing
infanticidal
Infanticidal Behavior
Infanticidal Male
Interbirth Interval
Intraspecific Predation
Intrauterine Position
killing
male
mammalian social systems
Meriones Unguiculatus
Noninfanticidal Males
Parent Offspring Conflict
parental investment theory
population dynamics
Postpartum Estrus
presbytis
Presbytis Entellus
Red Howlers
reproductive strategies
sarah
selection
sexual
Sexual Selection Hypothesis
Sibling Cannibalism
Table Iii
Product details
- ISBN 9780202362212
- Weight: 950g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Recent field studies of a variety of mammalian species reveal a surprisingly high frequency of infanticide - the killing of unweaned or otherwise maternally dependent offspring. Similarly, studies of birds, fish, amphibians, and invertebrates demonstrate egg and larval mortality in these species, a phenomenon directly analogous to infanticide in mammals. In this collection, Hausfater and Hrdy draw together work on animal and human infanticide and place these studies in a broad evolutionary and comparative perspective.Infanticide presents the theoretical background and taxonomic distribution of infanticide, infanticide in nonhuman primates, infanticide in rodents, and infanticide in humans. It examines closely sex allocation and sex ratio theory, surveys the phylogeny of mammalian interbirth intervals, and reviews data on sources of egg and larval mortality in a variety of invertebrate and lower vertebrate species. Dealing with infanticide in nonhuman primates, two chapters critically examine data on infanticide in langurs and its broader theoretical implications. By reviewing sources of infant mortality in populations of small mammals and new laboratory analyses of the causes and consequences of infanticide, this work explores such issues as the ontogeny of infanticide, proximate cues of infants and females which elicit infanticidal behavior in males, the genetical basis of infanticide, and the hormonal determinants.Hausfater and Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, through their selection of materials for this book, evaluate the frequency, causes, and function of infanticide. Historical, ethnographic, and recent data on infanticide are surveyed. "Infanticide" summarizes current research on the evolutionary origins and proximate causation of infanticide in animals and man. As such it will be indispensable reading for anthropologists and behavioral biologists as well as ecologists, psychologists, demographers, and epidemiologists.
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Glenn Hausfater
