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This book provides an authoritative and comprehensive synthesis of current research on the evolution and physiological control of sexual behaviour in the primates--prosimians, monkeys, apes, and human beings. This new edition has been fully updated and greatly expanded throughout to incorporate a decade of new research findings. It maintains the depth and scientific rigour of the first edition, and includes a new chapter on human sexuality, written from a comparative perspective. It contains 2,600 references, almost 400 figures and photographs, and 73 tables.

New to this edition:
- Updated throughout--approximately 20% of the text is new and includes many new illustrations. There are 600 new references
- A new chapter discusses human sexuality in a comparative context
- Includes a new 6-page colour plate section