| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
The evolving female/ Mary Ellen Morbeck, Alison Galloway, and Adrienne L. Zihlman, editors. |
| Reminder of title: |
a life-history perspective / |
| other author: |
Galloway, Alison, |
| Published: |
Princeton, N.J. :Princeton University Press, : c1997., |
| Description: |
xix, 332 p. :ill. ;27 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
What is life history? -- Life history, the individual, and evolution / Mary Ellen Morbeck -- Changing views of female life histories / Linda Marie Fedigan -- What it means to be a mammal -- Sea lions, life history, and reproduction/ Kathryn Ono -- Life history and reproductive success of female northern elephant seals / Joanne Reiter -- What it means to be a primate -- Social relationships and life histories of primates/ Barbara B. Smuts -- Development of sex differences in nonhuman primates / Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa -- The social life of female Japanese monkeys / Mary S. McDonald Pavelka -- Natural history of apes : life-history features in females and males/ Adrienne L. Zihlman -- What it means to be a catarrhine -- Reading life history in teeth, bones, and fossils / Mary Ellen Morbeck -- The cost of reproduction and the evolution of postmenopausal osteoporosis/ Alison Galloway -- The biological origins of adipose tissue in humans / Caroline M. Pond -- Female primates : fat or fit? / Robin McFarland -- What it means to be a human -- Women's bodies, women's lives : an evolutionary perspective/ Adrienne L. Zihlman -- Sex differences in human populations : change through time / Silvana M. Borgognini Tarli and Elena Repetto -- Growing up female in a farmer community and a forager community/ Gilda A. Morelli -- Institutional, evolutionary, and demographic contexts of gender roles : a case study of!Kung bushmen / Patricia Draper -- Women's work and energetics : a case study from Nepal/ Catherine Panter-Brick -- Flexibility and paradox : the nature of adaptation in human reproduction / Virginia J. Vitzthum -- Life history, females, and evolution -- Social intelligence and sexual reproduction : evolutionary strategies/ Alison Jolly -- Life history, females, and evolution : a commentary / Beverly McLeod. |
| Subject: |
Females - Physiology. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=74855An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1400812763 (electronic bk.) |