Sex Differences
Developmental and Evolutionary Strategies
- 1st Edition - April 3, 2000
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Linda Mealey
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 8 7 4 6 0 - 2
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 9 3 3 - 0 1 5 6 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 4 1 1 3 - 6
Sex Differences serves as an advanced text for courses in evolutionary and human biology, psychology, and sexuality and gender studies. It also serves as a reference source for ac… Read more
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Request a sales quoteSex Differences serves as an advanced text for courses in evolutionary and human biology, psychology, and sexuality and gender studies. It also serves as a reference source for academic professionals in these disciplines. The book covers the evolution of sex and sex differences, and sex differences and sexual strategies in non-human and human animals. The final chapter addresses issues of sex and gender in interpersonal relationships, organizations and politics. Diagrams, graphs, charts, and tables illustrate key concepts; cartoons and photos provide visual breaks and an element of humor.
- Examines sexual differences from a multi-level comparative approach
- Contains a thorough coverage of literature through 1998 and into 1999
- Illustrates pages with a generous use of cartoons, photos, figures, and diagrams
- Invites bonus learning with special interest boxes interspersed throughout text
- Presents a critical analysis
- Includes a combination of feminist and evolutionary thinking
Advanced courses in evolutionary biology, psychology, and/or sex differences; academic researchers in evolutionary psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and sociology
Part I: Theory:Introduction:Opening Comments.An Explanatory Framework for Studying Sex and Gender Differences.A Methodological Framework for Studying Sex and Gender Differences.Closing Comments.Chapter 2: Sexual Differentiation:Opening Comments.Sex versus Gender.Abnormal Sexual Development.Closing Comments.Chapter 3: Evolution of Sex and Sex Differences:Opening Comments.Natural Selection.Evolution of Sex.Parenting Strategies.Evolutionarily Stable Strategies.Caveats on Adaptationism.Closing Comments.Sex as a Life-History Strategy: Opening Comments.Fundamental Sex Differences.Sexual Selection.Sex-Role Reversals.Facultative Variation.Closing Comments.Part II: Nonhuman Systems:Male Strategies and Tactics:Opening Comments.Finding, Attracting, and Evaluating Potential Mates.Manipulating Other Males.Alternative Tactics.Paternal Investment.Manipulating Mates.Closing Comments.Female Strategies and Tactics:Opening Comments.Attracting and Evaluating Potential Mates.Manipulating Mates.Thwarting Unwanted Mates.Manipulating Other Females.Maternal Investment.Closing Comments.Mating Systems:Opening Comments.Polygynous Mating Systems.Monogamous Mating Systems.Polyandrous, Cooperative, and Polygynandrous Mating Systems.Facultative Strategies.Other Systems.Closing Comments.Part III: Human Systems:The Human Animal:Opening Comments.Our Primate Inheritance.Genetics.Behavior Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology.Research Methods.Difficulties in Human Research.Closing Comments.Women's Strategies and Tactics:Opening Comments.Our Primate Heritage.Attracting and Evaluating Potential Mates.Manipulating Mates.Thwarting Unwanted Mates.Manipulating Other Females.Maternal Investment.Closing Comments.Men's Strategies and Tactics:Opening Comments.Our Primate Heritage.Attracting and Evaluating Potential Mates.Manipulating Other Males.Alternative Tactics.Paternal Investment.Manipulating Mates.Closing Comments.Courtship, Mating, Marriage, and Parenting: Opening Comments.Polygyny.Monogamy.Polyandry and Polygnandry.Facultative Strategies.Closing Comments.Sexual Politics: Opening Comments.Interpersonal Relationships.Marriage and Family.Workplace Issues.Clinical Issues.Religion and the State.Politics.Closing Comments.
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 3, 2000
- No. of pages (Hardback): 504
- No. of pages (eBook): 480
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780124874602
- Paperback ISBN: 9781493301560
- eBook ISBN: 9780080541136
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