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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Primate societies. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987, c1986 (OCoLC)761356933 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Barbara B Smuts; et al |
| ISBN: | 0226767167 9780226767161 0226767159 9780226767154 |
| OCLC Number: | 13498408 |
| Notes: | On leaf laid in: c1987. Includes index. |
| Description: | xi, 578 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. |
| Contents: | The study of primate societies / Dorothy L. Cheney ... [et al.] -- pt. 1. Evolution of diversity. Lorises, bushbabies, and tarsiers : diverse societies in solitary foragers / Simon K. Beader -- Malagasy prosimians : female dominance / Alison F. Richard -- Tamarins and marmosets : communal care of offspring / Anne Wilson Goldizen -- Monogamous cebids and their relatives : intergroup calls and spacing / John G. Robinson, Patricia C. Wright, and Warren G. Kinzey -- Howlers : variations in group size and demography / Carolyn M. Crockett and John F. Eisenberg -- Capuchins : squirrel monkeys, and atelines : socioecological convergence with old world primates / John G. Robinson and Charles H. Janson -- Colobines : infanticide by adult males / Thomas T. Struhsaker and Lysa Leland -- Forest guenons and Patas monkeys : male-male competition in one-male groups / Marina Cords -- Desert, forest, and montane baboons : multilevel societies / Edward Stammbach -- Cercopithecines in multimale groups : genetic diversity and population / Don J. Melnick and Mary C. Pearl -- Gibbons : territoriality and monogamy / Donna Robbins Leighton -- Orangutans : sexual dimorphism in a solitary species / Peter S. Rodman and John C. Mitani -- Gorillas : variation in female relationships / Kelly J. Stewart and Alexander H. Harcourt -- Chimpanzees and bonobos : cooperative relationships among males / Toshisada Nishida and Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa -- pt. 2. Socioecology. Life histories in comparative perspective / Paul H. Harvey, R.D. Martin, and T.H. Clutton-Brock -- Food distribution and foraging behavior / John F. Oates -- Interactions among primate species / Peter M. Waser -- Predation / Dorothy L. Cheney and Richard W. Wrangham -- Demography and reproduction / R.I.M. Dunbar -- Dispersal and philopatry / Anne E. Perry and Craig Packer -- Interactions and relationships between groups / Dorothy L. Cheney -- Evolution of social structure / Richard W. Wrangham -- pt. 3. Group life. Kinship / Sarah Gouzoules and Harold Gouzoules -- Conflict and cooperation / Jeffrey R. Walters and Robert M. Seyfarth -- Social behavior in evolutionary perspective / Joan B. Silk -- Infants, mothers, and other females / Nancy A. Nicolson -- Infants and adult males / Patricia L. Whitten -- Transition to adulthood / Jeffrey R. Walters -- Patterning of sexual activity / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy and Patricia L. Whitten -- Sexual competition and male choice ; Gender, aggression, and influence / Barbara B. Smuts -- Can nonhuman primates help us understand human behavior? / Robert A. Hinde -- Dynamics of social relationships / Frans B.M. de Waal -- pt. 4. Communication and intelligence. Communication by sight and smell / Anne C. Zeller -- Vocal communication and its relation to language / Robert M. Seyfarth -- Intelligence and social cognition / Susan Essock-Vitale and Robert M. Seyfarth -- Local traditions and cultural transmission / Toshisada Nishida -- pt. 5. The future. Conservation of primates and their habitats / Russell A. Mittermeier and Dorothy L. Cheney -- Future of primate research / Dorothy L. Cheney ... [et al.]. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Barbara B. Smuts ... [et al.] ; with 46 contributors. |
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