Human sperm competition : copulation, masturbation, and infidelity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baker, Robin, 1944-
Other Authors: Bellis, Mark A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Chapman & Hall, 1995.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Sex, coyness and promiscuity: the evolution of sperm competition
  • Legacies from the age of reptiles: copulation, flowback and the female orgasm
  • Mammalian inheritance: maternal care, family planning and sperm polymorphism
  • Mammalian inheritance: masturbation, homosexuality and push buttons
  • Primate inheritance: paternal care, sexual crypsis and the facade of monandry
  • Modern scenario: contraception, fecundity and the illusion of conscious control
  • Levels of human sperm competition.
  • Optimizing inseminates: ejaculate adjustment by males and the function of masturbation
  • Ejaculate manipulation by females and the function of the female orgasm
  • Sperm polymorphism and the Kamikaze Sperm Hypothesis
  • Human fertility and infertility: the kamikaze perspective.