We have analysed the relationship between primate mating system, size and size
dimorphism by utilizing several phylogenetically based methods. An independent contrast …

Male intrasexual selection in haplorhine primates has previously been shown to increase
male size and to a lesser degree also female size. I address the following questions:(1) why …

Previous researchers found positive scaling of body size and sexual size dimorphism (SSD)
in primates, known as Rensch's rule. The pattern is present in Haplorhini, but absent in …

The effects of a series of ecological and size factors on the degree of sexual dimorphism in
body weight and canine size were studied among subsets of 70 primate species. Variation …

In most animals, females are larger than males. Paradoxically, sexual size dimorphism is
biased towards males in most mammalian species. An accepted explanation is that sexual …

Male mating competition is generally regarded to account for sexual dimorphism in body
size, but levels of sexual dimorphism do not appear to be associated with the intensity of …

The four major hypotheses advanced to explain the evolution of sexually dimorphic
characters invoke sexual selection, natural selection, allometry, and phylogenetic inertia. In …

We have presented a formal model for the quantitative analysis of phylogenetic and specific
effects on the distribution of trait values among species. Total trait values are divided into …

In this paper, we examine allometric and sexual-selection explanations for interspecific
differences in the amount of sexual dimorphism among 60 primate species. Based on …

Abstract Cheverud et al.(1985) apply the important and relatively new methodology of
spatial autocorrelation to the quantification of phylogenetic constraints on adaptation and …