Why Sex Matters : : A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior - Revised Edition / / Bobbi S. Low.
Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? In Why Sex Matters, Bobbi Low ranges from ancient Rome to modern America, from the Amazon to the Arctic, and from single-celled organisms to international politics, to sh...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Edition: | Revised |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 8 halftones. 21 line illus. 2 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Racing the Red Queen
- 3. The Ecology of Sex Differences
- 4. Sex, Status, and Reproduction among the Apes
- 5. Sex, Resources, Appearance, and Mate Choice
- 6. Sex, Resources, and Human Lifetimes
- 7. Sex and Resource Ecology in Traditional Cultures
- 8. Sex, Resources, and Fertility In Transition
- 9. Nice Guys Can Win-In Social Species, Anyway
- 10. Conflicts, Culture, and Natural Selection
- 11. Sex and Complex Coalitions
- 12. Politics and Reproductive Competition
- 13. Sex, Resources, and Early Warfare
- 14. Societal Complexity and the Ecology of War
- 15. Wealth, Fertility, and the Environment in Future Tense
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Author Index