Infanticide And Parental Care
Taylor and Francis (Verlag)
978-3-7186-5505-2 (ISBN)
Part 1 Historical, anthropological, sociological and psychological approaches to the study of infanticide and parental care in humans - fitness tradeoffs in the history and evolution of delegated mothering with special reference to wet-nursing, abandonment and infanticide: the role of social, religious and medical practices in the neglect, abuse, abandonment and killing of infants; documentation of infanticide in selected western cultures. Part 2 Infanticide in nonhuman primates - sexual selection and local resource competition: infanticide among the langurs of Jodphur - testing the sexual selection hypothesis with a long-term record; infant abuse in confined monkey colonies - the maternal anxiety hypothesis. Part 3 Field studies on infanticide and parental care in insects, birds and mammals - oophagy and infanticide in colonies of social wasps: proximate and ultimate determinants of avian brood reduction; protection and abuse of young in pinnipeds; infanticide in lions. Part 4 Experimental studies of infanticide and parental care in rodents - infanticide and protection of young in house mice ("mus dommesticus") - female and male strategies: behavioural cycles and the neural timing of infanticide and parental behaviour in male house mice; to protect or kill offspring - a dynamic model of postpartum decision making.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.8.2014 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Farb., s/w. Abb. |
| Verlagsort | Chur |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 1043 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie |
| ISBN-10 | 3-7186-5505-5 / 3718655055 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-7186-5505-2 / 9783718655052 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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