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Primate Males: Causes and Consequences of Variation in Group Composition »

Authors: Peter M. Kappeler, Peter M. Kappeler
ISBN-13: 9780521658461, ISBN-10: 0521658462
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: May 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Peter M. Kappeler

Book Synopsis

Explores male number variation between and within primate species and its effects on male-female relationships.

	List of contributors
	Preface
I	Introduction	1
1	Primate males: history and theory	3
II	Comparative perspectives on male-female association	9
2	Multi-male breeding groups in birds: ecological causes and social conflicts	11
3	Males in macropod society	21
4	Social counterstrategies against infanticide by males in primates and other mammals	34
III	Variation in male numbers: taxon-level analyses	53
5	Causes and consequences of unusual sex ratios among lemurs	55
6	The number of adult males in callitrichine groups and its implications for callitrichine social evolution	64
7	From binding brotherhoods to short-term sovereignty: the dilemma of male Cebidae	72
8	The number of males in guenon groups	84
9	Socioecology of baboons: the interaction of male and female strategies	97
10	Variation in adult sex ratios of red colobus monkey social groups: implications for interspecific comparisons	108
11	The number of males in langur groups: monopolizability of female or demographic processes?	120
12	Costs and benefits of the one-male, age-graded, and all-male phases in wild Thomas's langur groups	130
13	Male dispersal and mating season influxes in Hanuman langurs living in multi-male groups	146
14	Rethinking monogamy: the gibbon case	159
15	Causes and consequences of variation in male mountain gorilla life histories and group membership	169
IV	Behavioral aspects of male coexistence	181
16	Relationships among non-human primate males: a deductive framework	183
17	Collective benefits, free-riders, and male extra-group conflict	192
18	Dominance, egalitarianism, and stalemate: an experimental approach to male-male competition in Barbary macaques	205
V	Evolutionary determinants and consequences	217
19	The evolution of male philopatry in neotropical monkeys	219
20	Models of outcome and process: predicting the number of males in primate groups	236
21	Why are male chimpanzees more gregarious than mothers? A scramble competition hypothesis	248
22	Male mating strategies: a modeling approach	259
VI	Conclusions	269
23	Understanding male primates	271
	References	278
	Index	314

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