Evolution's empress : Darwinian perspectives on the nature of women / edited by Maryanne L. Fisher, Justin R. Garcia, Rosemarie Sokol Chang.
| Other author | Fisher, Maryanne. |
| Other author | Garcia, Justin, 1985- |
| Other author | Chang, Rosemarie Sokol. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013] |
| Description | xix, 485 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Women's intrasexual competition for mates / Maryanne L. Fisher -- The tangled web she weaves: the evolution of female-female aggression and status-seeking / Laurette Liesen -- Getting by with a little help from friends: the importance of social bonds for female primates / Liza R. Moscovice -- A sex-neutral theoretical framework for making strong inferences about the origins of sex roles / Patricia Adair Gowaty -- Mothers, traditions, and the human strategy to leave descendants / Kathryn Coe and Craig T. Palmer -- Maternal effect and offspring development / Nicole M. Cameron and Justin R. Garcia -- The evolution of flexible parenting / Lesley Newson and Peter J. Richerson -- Human attachment vocalizations and the expanding notion of nurture / Rosemarie Sokol Chang -- Fathers versus sons: why Jocasta matters / Laura Betzig -- Women's health at the crossroads of evolution and epidemiology / Chris Reiber -- Fertility: life history and ecological aspects / Bobbi S. Low -- Reproductive strategies in female postgenerative life / Johannes Johow, Eckart Voland, and Kai Willführ -- |
| Contents | Now or later: peripartum shifts in female sociosexuality / Michelle Escasa-Dorne, Sharon M. Young, and Peter B. Gray -- Sexual conflict in white-faced capuchins: it's not whether you win or lose / Linda Fedigan and Katharine M. Jack -- The importance of female choice: evolutionary perspectives on constraints, expressions, and variations in female mating strategies / David A. Frederick, Tania A. Reynolds, and Maryanne L. Fisher -- Swept off their feet? Females' strategic mating behavior as a means of supplying the broom / Christopher J. Wilbur and Lorne Campbell -- Sex and gender differences in communication strategies / Elisabeth Oberzaucher -- A new view of evolutionary psychology using female priorities and motivations / Tami Meredith -- From reproductive resource to autonomous individuality? Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre / Nancy Easterlin -- The empress's clothes / Julie Seaman -- Consuming midlife motherhood: cooperative breeding and the 'disestablishment' of the biological clock / Michele Pridmore-Brown -- The quick and the dead: gendered agency in the history of western science and evolutionary theory / Leslie L. Heywood. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2012044983 |
| ISBN | 9780199892747 |
| ISBN | 0199892741 |
| Standard identifier# | 40022115015 |