Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. PART ONE Theoretical and Empirical Context
5. 1 Evolution and Ecological Diversity in Animal Mating and Parenting Systems 13
6. 2 Neuroendocrine Mechanisms Underlying Social Relationships 32
7. 3 Social Relationships and Reproductive Ecology 54
8. 4 Hormone-Behavior Interrelationships in a Changing Environment 74
9. 5 The Endocrinology of the Human Adaptive Complex 95
10. PART TWO Social Relationships among Nonhuman Animals
11. 6 The Endocrinology of Social Relationships in Rodents 121
12. 7 The Endocrinology of Family Relationships in Biparental Monkeys 138
13. 8 Hormonal and Neurochemical Influences on Aggression in Group-Living Monkeys 159
14. 9 The Endocrinology of Intersexual Relationships in the Apes 196
15. PART THREE Social Relationships among Humans
16. 10 Human Sex Differences in Social Relationships: Organizational and Activational Effects of Androgens 225
17. 11 The Role of Sex Hormones in the Initiation of Human Mating Relationships 246
18. 12 Human Male Testosterone, Pair-Bonding, and Fatherhood 270
19. 13 Neurobiology of Human Maternal Care 294
20. 14 Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and Human Social Behavior 319
21. 15 Androgens and Diversity in Adult Human Partnering 340
22. 16 Early Life Influences on the Ontogeny of the Neuroendocrine Stress Response in the Human Child 364
23. References 385
24. Contributors 491
25. Index 493