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Primates in the real world : escaping primate folklore and creating primate science /

"The opening of this vital new book centers on a series of graves memorializing baboons killed near Amboseli National Park in Kenya in 2009--a stark image that emphasizes both the close emotional connection between primate researchers and their subjects and the intensely human qualities of the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Montgomery, Georgina M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville [Virginia] : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Separating fact from fiction
  • Venturing out of the lab and into the wild: early primate field studies
  • Control, repetition, and objectivity: turning field observation into a science
  • Capturing natural behavior: changing definitions of "natural" in mid-twentieth-century primate studies
  • Modern primatology: the emergence of long-term international field projects
  • Inclusion and Indigenous researchers: the Africanization of the Amboseli Baboon Project.