Dissertation Research: Female Mate Choice in Free-Ranging Rhesus Macaques

这个研究项目将测试一系列关于 自由放养猕猴的雌性择偶行为 在波多黎各的圣地亚哥岛。 具体来说，研究人员将 看看女性对低职位而不是高职位的偏好 男性。这将是第一个研究女性伴侣的项目 偏好：早期的项目集中在男性的选择上。 这个项目将有助于消除文化偏见， 使得许多灵长类动物学家认为雌性的择偶行为 增强了雄性竞争的选择性效应。 它 会使雌性灵长类动物积极参与生殖活动， 过程 增加我们对各种 灵长类动物的适应性生殖策略将有助于身体 人类学家建立了更好的模型来解释灵长类动物， 人类进化以及增加我们对灵长类的了解 社会行为

This research project will test a series of hypotheses about female mate choice among free.ranging provisioned rhesus macaques at Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico. Specifically the researcher will look at female preferences for lower as opposed to high ranking males. This will be the first project to look at female mate preferences: earlier projects have centered on male choices. This project will help eliminate the cultural biases that have led many primatologists to assume that female mate choice only reinforces the selective effects of male.male competition. It will make female primates active participants in the reproductive process. An increase in our understanding of the range of adaptive reproductive strategies in primates will help physical anthropologists construct better models to explain primate and hominid evolution as well as increase our knowledge of primate social behavior.