Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Warren G. Kinzey
  • 1. Behavioral innovations
  • Gathering by females: the chimpanzee model revisited and the gathering hypothesis / Nancy M. Tanner
  • Transportation of resources: reconstructions of early hominid socioecology: a critique of primate models / Richard Potts
  • 2. Primate-derived models
  • African apes: the significance of African apes for reconstructing human social evolution / Richard W. Wrangham
  • Chimpanzees: Pygmy chimpanzees and common chimpanzees: models for the behavioral ecology of the earliest hominids / Randall L. Susman
  • Baboons: baboon models and muddles / Shirley C. Strum & William Mitchell
  • Monogamous primates: a primate model for human mating systems / Warren G. Kinzey
  • Howler monkeys: diet, dimorphism, and demography: perspectives from howlers to hominids / Carolyn M. Crockett
  • 3. Paleoecological models
  • Cytogenetic methods: social and ecological aspects of primate cytogenetics / Jon Marks
  • Morpho-physiological analysis of diets: species-specific dietary patterns in primates and human dietary adaptations / Robert W. Sussman
  • 4. Theoretical issues
  • The reconstruction of hominid behavioral evolution through strategic modeling / John Tooby and Irven DeVore.