Human sperm competition : copulation, masturbation, and infidelity /
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| Author / Creator: | Baker, Robin, 1944- |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | London ; New York : Chapman & Hall, 1995. |
| Description: | xvi, 353 p. ill. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4728068 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Sex, coyness and promiscuity: the evolution of sperm competition
- 3. Legacies from the age of reptiles: copulation, flowback, and the female orgasm
- 4. The mammalian inheritance: maternal care, family planning, and sperm polymorphism
- 5. The mammalian inheritance: masturbation, homosexuality and push buttons
- 6. The primate inheritance: paternal care, sexual crypsis and the facade of monandry
- 7. The modern scenario: contraception, fecundity and the illusion of conscious control
- 8. Levels of human sperm competition
- 9. Optimizing inseminates: ejaculate adjustment by males and the function of masturbation
- 10. Ejaculate manipulation by females and the function of the female orgasm
- 11. Sperm polymorphism and the Kamikaze Sperm Hypothesis
- 12. Human fertility and infertility: the kamikaze perspective
- 13. Final thoughts.
