Table of Contents

1: Darwin and friends
2: Primate classification and evolution
3: Mating systems
4: Mating tactics and reproductive success
5: Sexual behaviour and sexual response
6: Socio-sexual, bisexual, and homosexual behaviour
7: Sexual selection and sexually dimorphic traits
8: Sperm competition
9: Sexual selection and genitalic evolution
10: The development of sexually dimorphic behaviour
11: The ovarian cycle and sexual behaviour
12: The neuroendocrine regulation of sexual behaviour in the adult female
13: Hormones and sexual behaviour in the adult male
14: Socioendocrinology and sexual behaviour
15: Human sexuality in primatological perspective
References
Index

About the Author

Alan Dixson was educated in England at the University of Nottingham, where he obtained a BSc in Zoology (1970) and at the University of Birmingham Medical School, where he was awarded a PhD (1973) and a DSc in Biological Sciences (1993). His research has involved comparative studies of reproductive biology and the evolution of sexuality in primates and in other mammals. He has held posts at the Zoological Society of London (1976-1983), Medical Research Council UK
(1983-1999), International Medical Research Centre in Gabon (1989-1992), Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge (1993-1998) and was Director of Conservation and Science at the
Zoological Society of San Diego in the USA (1999- 2005). He is currently a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand. Alan Dixson has authored, or co-authored, more than 140 papers and books.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition Alan Dixson has drawn together an impressive body of literature in this landmark volume.... Dixson's treatment is unusually inclusive across levels of analysis and activity. His reach is impressive, and he has sought to distil and review more than 2000 sources from a diverse literature.... Primate Sexuality is an essential starting point in this field, and a must for every primatologist's library.'
Professor Jeanne Altmann, Nature
`An extremely important source of information and ideas. There is no other book like it for primates, and I suspect none for any other Order.'
Professor Alexander Harcourt, University of California, Davis, USA
`A fascinating, comprehensive, up-to-date and unparalleled synthesis of our current knowledge about primate sexuality.'
Dr Andreas Paul, University of Göttingen, Germany