Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans: An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Aggression Against Females PDF
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SEXUAL COERCION IN PRIMATES AND HUMANS SEXUAL COERCION IN PRIMATES AND HUMANS An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Aggression against Females edited by MARTIN N. MULLER RICHARD W. WRANGHAM HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge,Massachusetts,and London,England 2009 Copyright © 2009 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sexual coercion in primates and humans:an evolutionary perspective on male aggression against females / edited by Martin N.Muller and Richard W.Wrangham. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-674-03324-5 (alk.paper) 1. Primates—Sexual behavior. 2. Aggressive behavior in animals. I. Muller, MartinN.,1971– II. Wrangham,Richard W.,1948– QL737.P9S442 2009 156'.5—dc22 2008042366 For Sherry and Elizabeth Contents I INTRODUCTION AND THEORY 1 Male Aggression and Sexual Coercion of Females in Primates 3 Martin N.Muller,Sonya M.Kahlenberg,and Richard W.Wrangham 2 Evolution of Sexual Coercion with Respect to Sexual Selection andSexual Conflict Theory 23 Jana J.Watson-Capps 3 Intersexual Conflict in Primates:Infanticide, Paternity Allocation,and the Role of Coercion 42 Parry Clarke,Gauri Pradhan,and Carel van Schaik II SEXUAL COERCION AND MATE GUARDING IN NONHUMAN PRIMATES 4 Orangutans:Sexual Coercion without Sexual Violence 81 Cheryl D.Knott 5 Male Aggression against Females in Mountain Gorillas: Courtship or Coercion? 112 Martha M.Robbins viii Contents 6 The Causes and Consequences of Male Aggression Directed at Female Chacma Baboons 128 Dawn M.Kitchen,Jacinta C.Beehner,Thore J.Bergman, Dorothy L.Cheney,Catherine Crockford,Anne L.Engh,Julia Fischer, Robert M.Seyfarth,and Roman M.Wittig 7 Female-Directed Aggression and Social Control in Spider Monkeys 157 Andres Link,Anthony Di Fiore,and Stephanie N.Spehar 8 Male Aggression against Females and Sexual Coercion in Chimpanzees 184 Martin N.Muller,Sonya M.Kahlenberg,and Richard W.Wrangham 9 Sexual Coercion in Dolphin Consortships: A Comparison with Chimpanzees 218 Richard C.Connor and Nicole L.Vollmer 10 Male Aggression toward Females in Hamadryas Baboons: Conditioning,Coercion,and Control 244 Larissa Swedell and Amy Schreier III SEXUAL COERCION AND MATE GUARDING IN HUMANS 11 Coercive Violence by Human Males against Their Female Partners 271 Margo Wilson and Martin Daly 12 The Political Significance of Gender Violence 292 Lars Rodseth and Shannon A.Novak 13 Intimate Wounds:Craniofacial Trauma in Women and Female Chimpanzees 322 Shannon A.Novak and Mallorie A.Hatch 14 Human Rape:Revising Evolutionary Perspectives 346 Melissa Emery Thompson Contents ix IV FEMALE COUNTERSTRATEGIES 15 “Friendship”with Males:A Female Counterstrategy to Infanticide in Chacma Baboons of the Okavango Delta 377 Ryne Palombit 16 The Absence of Sexual Coercion in Bonobos 410 Tommaso Paoli 17 Sexual Coercion,Patriarchal Violence,and Law 424 Diane L.Rosenfeld V SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 18 Sexual Coercion in Humans and Other Primates: The Road Ahead 451 Richard W.Wrangham and Martin N.Muller Contributors 469 Index 475
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