Comparative primate socioecology:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 1999
Series:Cambridge studies in biological anthropology 22
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Comparative method - Ann Maclarnon -- - Cladistics as a tool in comparative analysis - Kate Robson-Brown -- - Phylogenetically independent comparison and primate phylogeny - Andrew Purvis and Andrea J. Webster -- - Sociecology and the evolution of primate reproductive rates - Caroline Ross and Kate E. Jones -- - Comparative ecology of postnatal growth and weaning among haplorphine primates - Phyllis C. Lee -- - Some current ideas about the evolution of the human life history - Nicholas Blurton Jones, Kristen Hawkes and James F. O'Connell -- - Evolutionary ecology of the primate brain - Robert Barton -- - Sex and social evolution in primates - Carel P. Van Schaik, Maria A. Van Noordwijk and Charles L. Nunn -- - Mating systems, intrasexual competition and sexual dimorphism in primates - J. Michael Plavcan -- - Lemur social structure and convergence in primate socioecology - Peter M. Kappeler -- - Why is female kin bonding so rare? Comparative sociality of neotropical primates - Karen B. Strier -- - Energetics, time budgets and group size - Daisy K. Williamson and Robin Durbar -- - Ecology of sex differences in great ape foraging - Allison Bean -- - Hominid behavioural evolution - Robert A. Foley -- - Evolutionary ecology and cross-cultural comparison - Ruth Mace and Clare Holden
Comparative Primate Socioecology is an exciting new book drawing together recent and controversial findings from field research on a wide variety of primate species including lemurs and humans. It creates a new synthesis and provides methodologies for all those interested in human and non-human primate behaviour and evolution
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 412 pages)
ISBN:0511020139
0511155158
051117506X
0511542461
0521593360
9780511020131
9780511155154
9780511175060
9780511542466
9780521593366

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