ean 9780199676613 temática BIOLOGÍA edición 2ª año Publicación 2013 idioma INGLÉS editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS formato CARTONÉ 69,21 €    PEDIR   NOVEDAD

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Written in an accessible style by a leading authority in the field Builds on the reputation of the first edition, providing a fully revised and comprehensive successor Illustrated throughout with hundreds of original drawings and figures, including a new 4 page colour plate section New to this edition Updated throughout - approximately 20% of the text is new and includes many new illustrations. There are 600 new references. A new chapter discusses human sexuality in a comparative context. Includes a new 4 page colour plate section. Primate 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. Readership: An essential reference work for students and researchers in the fields of primatology, anthropology, evolutionary biology, and psychology, as well as psychiatrists and clinicians with an interest in human reproduction, sexuality, and evolution.

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1: 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 Index