Infanticide by males and its implications: Infanticide by male primates: the sexual selection hypothesis revisited

By Van Schaik, P. Carel. 2000

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Social Psychology

1. John C. Mitani
2. J. Lehmann
3. Christophe Boesch
4. David P Watts
5. R. Wrangham
6. Peter M. Kappeler
7. G. Fickenscher
8. J. Setchell

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Christophe Boesch
2. John C. Mitani
3. David P Watts
4. J. Setchell
5. Peter M. Kappeler
6. C. V. van Schaik

Citations in the corpus

• Kin biased investment in wild chimpanzees (2006, background): “If paternity confusion is effective, males will not be able to easily infer paternity based on mating behaviour, making infanticide less likely as it would then be prone to errors (van Schaik, 2000).”
• Do Female Mandrills Prefer Brightly Colored Males? (2005, background): “However, female choice for multiple mates appears to be ubiquitous in primates (Hrdy, 2000; Hrdy and Whitten, 1987), presumably because this allows females to effectively reduce their unusually high risk of infanticide by confusing paternity (van Schaik, 2000).”
• Evolution of Primate Social Systems (2002, background): “For them, rates of male infanticide appear too low to qualify as a major force in social evolution, but the rates may be low precisely because effective countermeasures are already in place to minimize the risk: the white knight rejoinder (van Schaik, 2000a).”
• Mating Strategies in Relation to Sexually Selected Infanticide in a Non‐Social Carnivore: the Brown Bear (2006, background): “Several alternative explanations have been proposed to explain infanticidal behavior by males (Van Schaik & Janson 2000a); however, they do not seem appropriate in this case.”
• Correlates of territorial boundary patrol behaviour in wild chimpanzees (2005, background): “Extensive fieldwork, however, now clearly reveals that despite its rarity, infanticide is a pervasive threat in many primate species and has major effects on behaviour and reproduction (Watts 1989; Palombit et al. 1997; Borries et al. 1999; van Schaik 2000).”