Sexual selection and the evolution of visually conspicuous sexually dimorphic traits in male monkeys, apes, and human beings

Annual Review of Sex Research

Volumn 16, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-19

  Dixson, Alan ^a   Dixson, Barnaby ^b,c   Anderson, Matthew ^b,c  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION RESEARCH   (United States)

^c ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Primates; Secondary sexual traits; Sexual dimorphism; Sexual selection; Visual communication

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BODY CONSTITUTION; HAPLORHINI; HOMINID; HUMAN; MALE; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; HAPLORHINI; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIR BOND; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33744807748     PISSN: 10532528     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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