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The Role of Females in Extrapair Copulations in Socially Monogamous Territorial Animals

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Feminism and Evolutionary Biology

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This chapter considers the role of females in the sexual and agonistic life of socially monogamous territorial species. Because of the obvious superficial similarities between such species and humans, this is a topic that has always attracted attention from evolutionary and behavioral biologists. However, despite longstanding interest in animal monogamy, most empirical and theoretical studies have relied on a relatively small set of seminal ideas and hypotheses, some of which are summarized here.

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Stamps, J. (1997). The Role of Females in Extrapair Copulations in Socially Monogamous Territorial Animals. In: Gowaty, P.A. (eds) Feminism and Evolutionary Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5985-6_12

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