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The real chimpanzee : sex strategies in the forest / Christophe Boesch.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 181 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511651410
  • 0511651414
  • 9780511593512
  • 0511593511
  • 9780511627132
  • 0511627130
  • 0511698933
  • 9780511698934
  • 1107188172
  • 9781107188174
  • 0511647336
  • 9780511647338
  • 1282393383
  • 9781282393387
  • 9786612393389
  • 6612393386
  • 0511592582
  • 9780511592584
  • 0511595441
  • 9780511595448
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Real chimpanzee.DDC classification:
  • 599 22
LOC classification:
  • QL737.P96 B595 2009eb
NLM classification:
  • 2009 K-254
  • QL 737.P96
Online resources:
Contents:
Make love and war? -- Inconspicuous female superiority -- The tyranny of the testis -- Odyssey through our forest past -- Make war to get love -- The real chimpanzee -- When sex becomes destructive -- Postscript : Fédora's fate.
Summary: The Real Chimpanzee encapsulates the fascinating behaviour of wild chimpanzees and discusses the differences observed in different populations across the species, and across the many levels of their social behaviour. It explains why sex competition and predation pressures in a forest chimpanzee population made the females of the group highly social and gave the males a high level of within-group solidarity, making them very xenophobic towards outsiders. Love is what makes war possible. Christophe Boesch brings back to the table the debate over ecological pressures and social organization, and the influence they have over issues such as the evolution of warfare, co-operation, altruism and the position of females. Written in an accessible style for a general audience as well as for undergraduate and graduate students, he presents insightful views to give readers the background information to understand the struggle for survival of our closest living relative, the chimpanzee, and through this to find some keys to the ever-so-intriguing question of what makes us human.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-173) and index.

Make love and war? -- Inconspicuous female superiority -- The tyranny of the testis -- Odyssey through our forest past -- Make war to get love -- The real chimpanzee -- When sex becomes destructive -- Postscript : Fédora's fate.

Print version record.

The Real Chimpanzee encapsulates the fascinating behaviour of wild chimpanzees and discusses the differences observed in different populations across the species, and across the many levels of their social behaviour. It explains why sex competition and predation pressures in a forest chimpanzee population made the females of the group highly social and gave the males a high level of within-group solidarity, making them very xenophobic towards outsiders. Love is what makes war possible. Christophe Boesch brings back to the table the debate over ecological pressures and social organization, and the influence they have over issues such as the evolution of warfare, co-operation, altruism and the position of females. Written in an accessible style for a general audience as well as for undergraduate and graduate students, he presents insightful views to give readers the background information to understand the struggle for survival of our closest living relative, the chimpanzee, and through this to find some keys to the ever-so-intriguing question of what makes us human.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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