Animal Homosexuality : A Biosocial Perspective
Aldo. Poiani
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2010
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (578 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Animal homosexuality in evolutionary perspective; 2 The comparative study of homosexual behaviour; 3 Genetics of homosexuality; 4 Ontogenetic processes; 5 The endocrine and nervous systems: a network of causality for homosexual behaviour; 6 Immunology and homosexuality; 7 Sexual segregation effects; 8 The social, life history and ecological theatres of animal homosexual behaviour; 9 Homosexual behaviour in primates Alan Dixson. - 10 A Biosocial Model for the evolution and maintenance of homosexual behaviour in birds and mammalsAppendix 1: Glossary; Appendix 2: Predictions of the Synthetic Reproductive Skew Model of Homosexuality and results obtained in the comparative tests of the model carried out in birds and mammals; Appendix 3: Comments on further results of comparative analyses of independent contrasts reported in the full correlation matrices of birds and mammals; REFERENCES; Index. - A comprehensive biosocial synthesis of homosexuality in humans, other mammals and birds, reviewing current knowledge and proposing new hypotheses.
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| ISBN | 9780521145145. - 9780521196758
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