A New Explanation of Female Infanticide from the Sexual Selection Point

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gigi Tevzadze
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Female Infanticide

The katydid that was: the tananá, stridulation, Henry Walter Bates and Charles Darwin

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio J. Bidau
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Bush Cricket

The Amazonian bush-cricket or katydid, Thliboscelus hypericifolius (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Pseudophyllinae), called tananá by the natives was reported to have a song so beautiful that they were kept in cages for the pleasure of listening to the melodious sound. The interchange of letters between Henry Walter Bates and Charles Darwin regarding the tananá and the issue of stridulation in Orthoptera indicates how this mysterious insect, which seems to be very rare, contributed to the theory of sexual selection developed by Darwin.

Sexual selection, evolution of play and entertainment

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ohler ◽  
Gerhild Nieding
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection

A cry still unheard: A menace of female foeticide societal attitude towards female foeticide

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mona Arora
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Female Infanticide ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Societal Pressure ◽  
Societal Attitude

India has an age old fascination with the boy child and considers the birthof a girl as a bad investment in future. A girl is considered to be consumer ratherthan a producer, and this narrow viewpoint of the Indian patriarchal society haslead to horrid practices like female infanticide and female foeticide. There is societal pressure for women to have male children and failurestend to feel guilty after giving birth to a girl. Such women are at risk of beingbeaten and rejected by their husbands. This can even lead to rejection by in -lawsand by the society as a whole. Keeping in view the above discourse the presentpaper aims to study the attitude of society towards female foeticide.

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