Infanticide by Males and its Implications
Contributors: Carel P. van Schaik (Editor); Charles H. Janson (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 11, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780521772952
Subjects: Animal behaviour; Primates; Nature; Primate Behavior; Science; Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Primates--Behavior; Science / Zoology; Behavior; Apes & Monkeys; Infanticide in animals
First sentence: The topic of infanticide has been a staple of theorem of sociobiology ever since this discipline - the study of social behavior from an evolutionary perspective - was born two and a half decades ago (Wilson 1975).