Author: Roberta L. Hall
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Sexual Dimorphism in Homo Sapiens
Author: Roberta L. Hall
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Advances in Morphometrics
Author: Leslie F. Marcus
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780306453014
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
''An important addition to your library.'' ---American Scientist
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780306453014
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
''An important addition to your library.'' ---American Scientist
Human Sexual Dimorphism
Author: Society for the Study of Human Biology. Symposium
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Odd Couples
Author: Daphne J. Fairbairn
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691169780
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The remarkable and unique ways that male and female animals play out gender roles in nature While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of many other animals. For instance, the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating with a female more than fifty times his size. And male blanket octopuses employ a copulatory arm longer than their own bodies to mate with females that outweigh them by four orders of magnitude. Why do these gender gulfs exist? Introducing readers to important discoveries in animal behavior and evolution, Odd Couples explores some of the most extraordinary sexual differences in the animal world. Daphne Fairbairn uncovers the unique and bizarre characteristics of these remarkable species and the special strategies they use to maximize reproductive success. Fairbairn also considers humans and explains that although we are keenly aware of our own sexual differences, they are unexceptional within the vast animal world. Looking at some of the most amazing creatures on the planet, Odd Couples sheds astonishing light on what it means to be male or female in the animal kingdom.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691169780
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The remarkable and unique ways that male and female animals play out gender roles in nature While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of many other animals. For instance, the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating with a female more than fifty times his size. And male blanket octopuses employ a copulatory arm longer than their own bodies to mate with females that outweigh them by four orders of magnitude. Why do these gender gulfs exist? Introducing readers to important discoveries in animal behavior and evolution, Odd Couples explores some of the most extraordinary sexual differences in the animal world. Daphne Fairbairn uncovers the unique and bizarre characteristics of these remarkable species and the special strategies they use to maximize reproductive success. Fairbairn also considers humans and explains that although we are keenly aware of our own sexual differences, they are unexceptional within the vast animal world. Looking at some of the most amazing creatures on the planet, Odd Couples sheds astonishing light on what it means to be male or female in the animal kingdom.
The Evolution of Human Sexuality
Author: Donald Symons
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199878471
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Anthropology, Sexual Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Gender and Cultural Studies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199878471
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Anthropology, Sexual Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Gender and Cultural Studies
Male, Female
Author: David C. Geary
Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn
ISBN: 9781557985279
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Geary (psychology and anthropology, U. of Missouri-Columbia) thinks culturally constructed gender roles alone cannot account for the differences in the social behavior of men and women. He turns to Darwin's theory of sexual selection as the best avenue for understanding. His main focus is how th etwo elements of competition between males and of females selecting mates has influenced human behavior over the centuries and across cultures.
Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn
ISBN: 9781557985279
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Geary (psychology and anthropology, U. of Missouri-Columbia) thinks culturally constructed gender roles alone cannot account for the differences in the social behavior of men and women. He turns to Darwin's theory of sexual selection as the best avenue for understanding. His main focus is how th etwo elements of competition between males and of females selecting mates has influenced human behavior over the centuries and across cultures.
Understanding Climate's Influence on Human Evolution
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309148383
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it means to be human, including the origins of bipedalism; the emergence of our genus Homo; the first use of stone tools; increases in brain size; and the emergence of Homo sapiens, tools, and culture. The Earth's geological record suggests that some evolutionary events were coincident with substantial changes in African and Eurasian climate, raising the possibility that critical junctures in human evolution and behavioral development may have been affected by the environmental characteristics of the areas where hominins evolved. Understanding Climate's Change on Human Evolution explores the opportunities of using scientific research to improve our understanding of how climate may have helped shape our species. Improved climate records for specific regions will be required before it is possible to evaluate how critical resources for hominins, especially water and vegetation, would have been distributed on the landscape during key intervals of hominin history. Existing records contain substantial temporal gaps. The book's initiatives are presented in two major research themes: first, determining the impacts of climate change and climate variability on human evolution and dispersal; and second, integrating climate modeling, environmental records, and biotic responses. Understanding Climate's Change on Human Evolution suggests a new scientific program for international climate and human evolution studies that involve an exploration initiative to locate new fossil sites and to broaden the geographic and temporal sampling of the fossil and archeological record; a comprehensive and integrative scientific drilling program in lakes, lake bed outcrops, and ocean basins surrounding the regions where hominins evolved and a major investment in climate modeling experiments for key time intervals and regions that are critical to understanding human evolution.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309148383
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it means to be human, including the origins of bipedalism; the emergence of our genus Homo; the first use of stone tools; increases in brain size; and the emergence of Homo sapiens, tools, and culture. The Earth's geological record suggests that some evolutionary events were coincident with substantial changes in African and Eurasian climate, raising the possibility that critical junctures in human evolution and behavioral development may have been affected by the environmental characteristics of the areas where hominins evolved. Understanding Climate's Change on Human Evolution explores the opportunities of using scientific research to improve our understanding of how climate may have helped shape our species. Improved climate records for specific regions will be required before it is possible to evaluate how critical resources for hominins, especially water and vegetation, would have been distributed on the landscape during key intervals of hominin history. Existing records contain substantial temporal gaps. The book's initiatives are presented in two major research themes: first, determining the impacts of climate change and climate variability on human evolution and dispersal; and second, integrating climate modeling, environmental records, and biotic responses. Understanding Climate's Change on Human Evolution suggests a new scientific program for international climate and human evolution studies that involve an exploration initiative to locate new fossil sites and to broaden the geographic and temporal sampling of the fossil and archeological record; a comprehensive and integrative scientific drilling program in lakes, lake bed outcrops, and ocean basins surrounding the regions where hominins evolved and a major investment in climate modeling experiments for key time intervals and regions that are critical to understanding human evolution.
The Ancestor's Tale
Author: Richard Dawkins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618619160
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
A renowned biologist provides a sweeping chronicle of more than four billion years of life on Earth, shedding new light on evolutionary theory and history, sexual selection, speciation, extinction, and genetics.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618619160
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
A renowned biologist provides a sweeping chronicle of more than four billion years of life on Earth, shedding new light on evolutionary theory and history, sexual selection, speciation, extinction, and genetics.
Sexual Selection and the Origins of Human Mating Systems
Author: Alan F. Dixson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199559422
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
This book demonstrates how detailed comparative analyses of the anatomy, reproductive physiology, and behaviour of non-human primates and other mammals can offer profound insights into the origins of human sexual behaviour.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199559422
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
This book demonstrates how detailed comparative analyses of the anatomy, reproductive physiology, and behaviour of non-human primates and other mammals can offer profound insights into the origins of human sexual behaviour.
The Evolutionary Biology of the Human Pelvis
Author: Cara M. Wall-Scheffler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107199573
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Synthesizes and re-examines the evolution of the human pelvis, which sits at the interface between locomotion and childbirth.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107199573
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Synthesizes and re-examines the evolution of the human pelvis, which sits at the interface between locomotion and childbirth.