Sex and friendship in baboons
with a new preface
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Author
Publication
1999 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
75,750 words, Guess
Page Count
303 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL22251575M
- ISBN-100674802756
- OCLC Control Number42080247
- Internet Archivesexfriendshipinb0000smut
- Library of Congress Control Number99043248
and 2 more
- Goodreads1332483
- LibraryThing1549926
Classifications
- DDC599.8/65156
- LCCQL737.P93 S58 1999
- LCCQL737.P93S58 1999
Description
"In the mid-1980s, this book transcended the traditional ethological focus on sexual interactions by analyzing male-female relationships outside the context of mating in a troop of wild baboons. Barbara Smuts used long-term friendships between males and females, documented over a two-year period, to show how social interactions between members of friendly pairs differed from those of other troop mates. Her findings, now enhanced with data from another fifteen years of field studies, suggest that the evolution of male reproductive strategies in baboons can only be understood by considering the relationship between sex and friendship: female baboons prefer to mate with males who have previously engaged in friendly interaction with them and their offspring. Smuts suggests that female choice may promote male investment in other species, and she explores the relevance of her findings for the evolution of male-female relationships in humans."--Jacket.
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