During the latter half of the last century, evidence of reproductive competition between males
and male selection by females led to the development of a stereotypical view of sex …

According to behavioural ecology theory, sociality evolves when the net benefits of close
association with conspecifics exceed the costs. The nature and relative magnitude of the …

Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young
differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of …

Humans are unique in that they expend considerable effort and ingenuity in disposing of the
dead. Some of the recognisable ways we do this are visible in the Palaeolithic archaeology …

A fascinating account of the latest thinking on human evolution, by'one of the most respected
evolutionary psychologists in Britain'. For scientists studying evolution, the past decade has …

Comparison is fundamental to evolutionary anthropology. When scientists study
chimpanzee cognition, for example, they compare chimp performance on cognitive tasks to …

While it is widely acknowledged that Darwin's descriptions of females were gender-biased,
gender bias in current sexual selection research is less recognized. An examination of the …

Great apes, our closest living relatives, live longer and mature later than most other
mammals and modern humans are even later‐maturing and potentially longer‐lived …

Covering the major topics of evolutionary game theory, Game-Theoretical Models in Biology,
Second Edition presents both abstract and practical mathematical models of real biological …

This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …