Primate Sexuality: Comparative Studies of the Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and Humans - Softcover

Dixson, Alan F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199676615 ISBN 13: 9780199676613

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Alan F. Dixson, School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Alan 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.

Review

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 Gottingen, Germany

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199676615
• ISBN 13: 9780199676613
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 808