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Comparative primate socioecology /

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 prim...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lee, Phyllis C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Colección:Cambridge studies in biological anthropology ; 22.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.