Sperm Competition in Humans

This volume presents the intricate ways in which sperm compete to
fertilize eggs and how this has prompted reinterpretations of
breeding behavior from a biological perspective. Sperm Competition in
Humans: Classic and Contemporary Readings provides a theoretical
framework for the study of sperm competition and also discusses the
roles of females and the relationships between paternal care in sperm
competition. The chapters focus on everything from evolutionary
biology to taxonomic development.

Evolutionary biologists, behaviorists, ecologists, psychologists,
anthropologists, and anyone interested in Reproductive Health, Animal
Behavior, and Sexuality

Sperm competition in humans.- Why are there so many tiny sperm? Sperm
competition and the maintenance of the two sexes.- Sperm competition,
male prudence, and sperm-limited females (2002).- Human sperm
competition (1984).- "Kamikaze" sperm in mammals? (1988).- Deformed
sperm are probably not adaptive (1989).- Elaboration of the kamikaze
sperm hypothesis: a reply to Harcourt (1989).- Number of sperm in
human ejaculates varies in accordance with sperm competition theory
(1989).- Do females promote sperm competition: data for humans
(1990).- Human sperm competition: ejaculate adjustment by males and
the function of masturbation (1993).- Human sperm competition:
ejaculate manipulation by females and a function for the female
orgasm (1993).- No evidence for killer sperm of other selective
interactions between human spermatozoa in ejaculates of different
males in vitro (1999).- Psychological adaptation to humans sperm
competition (2002).- Semen displacement as a sperm competition
strategy in humans (2004).- Human female orgasm and mate fluctuating
asymmetry (1995).

Classic and Contemporary Readings
Shackelford, Todd K.; Pound, Nicholas (Eds.)
2005, XXVI, 286 p. 61 illus., Hardcover
ISBN: 0-387-28036-7