ANTH 311 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Sexual Selection, Gelada, Patrilocal Residence
23 May 2014
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This chapter is structured like the previous chapter on female strategies, but now the focus is on male strategies. Recall that females map on to the food supply (chapter 7) and that males map on to females (this chapter). The ecology of male relationships talks about the spatial and temporal distribution of fertile females and how this affects male relationships and strategies. Depending on the distribution of fertile females, it may or may not be possible for males to monopolize access to them, just as the distribution of food may or may not be monopolizeable. So, monopolizeable food sources determine female competitive regimes, and the distribution of females (monopolizeable or not) may determine the competitive regime and hence the nature of social relationships among males. Box 8. 1 describes the use and misuse of infants as part of male strategies, which you saw in the gelada video.
