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Real Chimpanzee - Sex Strategies in the Forest

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Informationen zum Autor Christophe Boesch is Professor and Director of the Department of Primatology at the Max-Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany. Klappentext Encapsulates the behaviour of wild chimps, discussing the differences observed in populations across the species, and levels of social behaviour. Zusammenfassung Discusses the debate of ecological pressures and social organization! and their influences on the evolution of warfare! altruism and the position of females. Gives background information on the struggle for survival of our closest living relative! the chimpanzee! and finds keys to the ever-so-intriguing question of what makes us human. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Make love and war?; 2. Inconspicuous female superiority; 3. The tyranny of the testis; 4. Odyssey through our forest past; 5. Make war to get love; 6. The real chimpanzee; 7. When sex became destructive; 8. Postscript: Fedora's fate.

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Authors Christophe Boesch, Boesch Christophe
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 23.07.2009
 
EAN 9780521125130
ISBN 978-0-521-12513-0
No. of pages 196
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology

SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Primatology, Animal behaviour, Zoology and animal sciences, Primates, Animal Reproduction, Zoology: primates (primatology)

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