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Evolution of Primate Societies

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ISBN-10: 0226531724

ISBN-13: 9780226531724

Edition: 2012

Authors: John C. Mitani, Josep Call, Peter M. Kappeler, Ryne A. Palombit, Joan B. Silk

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In 1987, the University of Chicago Press publishedPrimate Societies, the standard reference in the field of primate behavior for an entire generation of students and scientists. But in the twenty-five years since its publication, new theories and research techniques for studying the Primate order have been developed, debated, and tested, forcing scientists to revise their understanding of our closest living relatives.           Intended as a sequel toPrimate Societies,The Evolution of Primate Societiescompiles thirty-one chapters that review the current state of knowledge regarding the behavior of nonhuman primates. Chapters are written by the leading authorities in the field and organized…    
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List price: $62.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/24/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 744
Size: 8.66" wide x 10.98" long x 1.69" tall
Weight: 4.026

Peter M. Kappeler is head of the Department of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology/Anthropology at the University of G�ttingen.

Ryne A. Palombitis associate professor of anthropology at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

Joan B. Silk has conducted extensive research on the social lives of monkeys and apes, including extended fieldwork on chimpanzees at Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania and on baboons in Kenya and Botswana. She is also interested in the application of evolutionary thinking to human behavior. She has published numerous articles in scientific journals and edited volumes. She is currently a professor in the School of Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.

Foreword
Preface
Introduction: The Editors
Primate Behavioral Diversity
Taxonomy of Living Primates
The Behavioral Ecology of Strepsirrhines and Tarsiers
The Behavior, Ecology, and Social Evolution of New World Monkeys
The Behavioral Ecology of Colobine Monkeys
The Behavior, Ecology, and Social Evolution of Cercopithecine Monkeys
The Apes: Taxonomy, Biogeography, Life Histories, and Behavioral Ecology
Surviving and Growing Up in a Difficult and Dangerous World
Food as a Selective Force in Primates
Predation
Ecological and Social Influcences on Sociality
Life-History Evolution
Socialization and Development of Behavior
Genetic Consequences of Primate Social Organization
Human Survival and Life History in Evolutionary Perspective
Mating and Rearing Offspring
From Maternal Investment to Lifetime Maternal Care
Magnitude and Sources of Variation in Female Reproductive Performance
Mate Choice
Mating, Parenting, and Male Reproductive Strategies
Magnitude and Sources of Variation in Male Reproductive Performance
Infanticide: Male Strategies and Female Counterstrategies
The Socioecology of Human Reproduction
Getting Along
Cooperation Among Kin
Cooperation among Non-kin: Reciprocity, Markets, Mutualism
The Regulation of Social Relationships
The Adaptive Value of Sociality
Social Regard: Evolving a Psychology of Cooperation
Human Sociality
Cognitive Strategies for Coping with Life's Challenges
Solving Ecological Problems
Knowledge of Social Relations
Communication Strategies
Understanding Other Minds
Social Learning, Traditions, and Culture
Human Cultural Cognition
Contributors
Index