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The Infanticide Controversy
Amanda Rees
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Description for The Infanticide Controversy
Hardcover. Identified in the 1960s as a phenomenon worthy of investigation, infanticide had, by the 1970s, become the focus of serious controversy. Tracing the history of the infanticide debates, this title investigates key theoretical and methodological themes that have characterized field studies of apes and monkeys in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: PSVP; PSVW79. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
Infanticide in the natural world might be a relatively rare event, but, as Amanda Rees shows, it has enormously significant consequences. Identified in the 1960s as a phenomenon worthy of investigation, infanticide had, by the 1970s, become the focus of serious controversy. The suggestion, by Sarah Hrdy, that it might be the outcome of an evolved strategy intended to maximize an individual's reproductive success sparked furious disputes between scientists, disagreements that have continued down to the present day. Meticulously tracing the history of the infanticide debates, and drawing on extensive interviews with field scientists, Rees investigates key theoretical and methodological ... Read more
Infanticide in the natural world might be a relatively rare event, but, as Amanda Rees shows, it has enormously significant consequences. Identified in the 1960s as a phenomenon worthy of investigation, infanticide had, by the 1970s, become the focus of serious controversy. The suggestion, by Sarah Hrdy, that it might be the outcome of an evolved strategy intended to maximize an individual's reproductive success sparked furious disputes between scientists, disagreements that have continued down to the present day. Meticulously tracing the history of the infanticide debates, and drawing on extensive interviews with field scientists, Rees investigates key theoretical and methodological ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226707112
SKU
V9780226707112
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About Amanda Rees
Amanda Rees is a lecturer in sociology at the University of York.
Reviews for The Infanticide Controversy
"The Infanticide Controversy is an authoritatively researched and attractively written work of historico-sociological analysis of important recent science. It draws on extensive interviews with participants and exhibits a deep knowledge of the technical issues as well as the multiple contexts conditioning debates about them." - Gregory Radick, author of The Simian Tongue"