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Infanticide

Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives

Infanticide
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An edition of Infanticide (2008)

Infanticide

Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives

"Recent field studies of a variety of mammalian species reveal a surprisingly high frequency of infanticide - the killing of unweaned or otherwise maternally dependent offspring. Similarly, studies of birds, fish, amphibians, and invertebrates demonstrate egg and larval mortality in these species, a phenomenon directly analogous to infanticide in mammals. In this collection, Hausfater and Hrdy draw together work on animal and human infanticide and place these studies in a broad evolutionary and comparative perspective. Infanticide presents the theoretical background and taxonomic distribution of infanticide, infanticide in nonhuman primates, infanticide in rodents, and infanticide in humans. It examines closely sex allocation and sex ratio theory, surveys the phylogeny of mammalian interbirth intervals, and reviews data on sources of egg and larval mortality in a variety of invertebrate and lower vertebrate species. Dealing with infanticide in nonhuman primates, two chapters critically examine data on infanticide in langurs and its broader theoretical implications. By reviewing sources of infant mortality in populations of small mammals and new laboratory analyses of the causes and consequences of infanticide, this work explores such issues as the ontogeny of infanticide, proximate cues of infants and females which elicit infanticidal behavior in males, the genetical basis of infanticide, and the hormonal determinants. Hausfater and Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, through their selection of materials for this book, evaluate the frequency, causes, and function of infanticide. Historical, ethnographic, and recent data on infanticide are surveyed. "Infanticide" summarizes current research on the evolutionary origins and proximate causation of infanticide in animals and man. As such it will be indispensable reading for anthropologists and behavioral biologists as well as ecologists, psychologists, demographers, and epidemiologists."--Provided by publisher

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Infanticide: Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives
2017, Taylor & Francis Group
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Cover of: Infanticide
Infanticide: Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives
2017, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Infanticide
Infanticide: Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives
2017, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
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Infanticide: comparative and evolutionary perspectives
2017, Taylor and Francis
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Cover of: Infanticide
Infanticide: Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives
2017, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Infanticide
Infanticide: comparative and evolutionary perspectives
2008, AldineTransaction
in English

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OL46563421M
ISBN 13
9781351512626

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