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First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Author:   Stefano Parmigiani ,  Frederick S. vom Saal
Publisher:   Harwood-Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Harwood-Academic Publishers
Volume:   Vol 13
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.050kg
ISBN:  

9783718655052

ISBN 10:   3718655055
Pages:   520
Publication Date:   15 August 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Part 1 Historical, anthropological, sociological and psychological approaches to the study of infanticide and parental care in humans - fitness tradeoffs in the history and evolution of delegated mothering with special reference to wet-nursing, abandonment and infanticide: the role of social, religious and medical practices in the neglect, abuse, abandonment and killing of infants; documentation of infanticide in selected western cultures. Part 2 Infanticide in nonhuman primates - sexual selection and local resource competition: infanticide among the langurs of Jodphur - testing the sexual selection hypothesis with a long-term record; infant abuse in confined monkey colonies - the maternal anxiety hypothesis. Part 3 Field studies on infanticide and parental care in insects, birds and mammals - oophagy and infanticide in colonies of social wasps: proximate and ultimate determinants of avian brood reduction; protection and abuse of young in pinnipeds; infanticide in lions. Part 4 Experimental studies of infanticide and parental care in rodents - infanticide and protection of young in house mice (""mus dommesticus"") - female and male strategies: behavioural cycles and the neural timing of infanticide and parental behaviour in male house mice; to protect or kill offspring - a dynamic model of postpartum decision making."

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