Eulemur fulvus rufus has been described as having stable multi‐male/multi‐female groups,
a male‐biased sex ratio, and female philopatry. However, in a 16‐year study of this …

A DECLARATION OF CARING: TOWARDS ECOLOGICAL MASCULINISM Page 1 Paul M.
Pulé This thesis is presented for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy of Murdoch University …

In this study, the paternity of all the infants born in 2002 and 2003 in a free‐ranging
Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) group at Arashiyama in Kyoto, Japan, was analyzed …

Odor communication in Old World monkeys and apes is controversial, because most
females have evolved visual and behavioral cues to signal fertility, eg, sexual swellings …

Sexual selection theory has provided a successful framework for studying sex differences in
behaviour, morphology, development and reproductive strategies, as well as the resulting …

Human females, unlike most mammals, are sexually active outside of fertile periods. This
decoupling of sexual behavior from its conceptive function has had an enormous impact on …

Aggression rarely escalates to physical conflict because doing so puts individuals at risk of
injury. Escalation only pays off when the potential benefits outweigh the potential costs, that …

Understanding adaptive patterns is especially difficult in the case of “evolutionary
singularities,” ie, traits that evolved in only one lineage in the clade of interest. New methods …

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are known to exist in wild and domesticated animals,
but little is know about behavioural defences that animals use to reduce the risk of acquiring …

The reliable indicator hypothesis proposes that exaggerated sexual swellings in female
primates serve as honest signals of female quality that function in female—female …