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Comparative primate socioecology / edited by P.C. Lee

Published
Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 412 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Lee, Phyllis C.
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Language Note
English.
Contents
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.
Summary
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.
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0511020139 (electronic bk.)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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