Reproduction in Mammals: The Female Perspective
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (760 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1421423154 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorVirginia Hayssen is a professor of biological sciences at Smith College. Teri Orr is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Utah.. She is the coauthor of Asdell’s Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
Some receive milk for only a few days, whereas others nurse for years. The authors shed light on a number of intriguing questions, including• do bigger moms have bigger babies?• do primates have longer pregnancies than other groups?• does habitat influence animals’ reproductive patterns?• do carnivores typically produce larger litters than prey species?The book opens with the authors’ definition of what constitutes a female perspective and an examination of the evolution of reproduction in mammals. It then outlines the typical individual mammalian female: her genetics, anatomy, and physiology. Humans typically have only one baby at a time following nine months of pregnancy, but other mammals have twenty or more young after only a few weeks in utero. Readers will come away from this thought-provoking book with an understanding not only of how reproduction fits into the lives of female mammals but also of how biology has affected the enormously diverse reproductive patterns of the phenotypes we observe today.. This unique book’s comprehensive coverage gathers stories from many taxa into a single, cohesive perspective that centers on the reproductive lives of females. Taking a nuanced approach, Hayssen and Orr describe the female reproductive cycle and explore female
Teri Orr is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Utah.. She is the coauthor of Asdell’s Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data. Virginia Hayssen is a professor of biological sciences at Smith College