During the latter half of the last century, evidence of reproductive competition between males
and male selection by females led to the development of a stereotypical view of sex …

Following Darwin's original insights regarding sexual selection, studies of intrasexual
competition have mainly focused on male competition for mates; by contrast, female …

In many nonhuman primates, the color red enhances males' attraction to females. In 5
experiments, the authors demonstrate a parallel effect in humans: Red, relative to other …

Primates communicate with each other using a wide range of signals: olfactory signals to
mark territories, screams to recruit help while fighting, gestures to request food and facial …

This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …

Research conducted in the last fifteen years has placed in question many of the traditional
conclusions scholars have formed about human female sexuality. Though conventional …

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (P. paniscus) are our closest living relatives,
with the human lineage diverging from the Pan lineage only around five to seven Mya, but …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the current knowledge of competition and
cooperation in wild chimpanzees. It explicitly focuses on recent field studies that shed new …

Competition for fertile females determines male reproductive success in many species. The
priority of access model predicts that male dominance rank determines access to females …

The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology
series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral …