P. C. Lee (ed.)

Comparative Primate Socioecology

Herausgeber: Lee, P. C.

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Produktbeschreibung

Draws together exciting new and controversial findings from field research on a wide variety of primates including humans.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 614g
• ISBN-13: 9780521004244
• ISBN-10: 0521004241
• Artikelnr.: 21108933

Autorenporträt

P. C. Lee is a lecturer in Biological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She began field work on baboons in 1975 and has maintained an interest in the socioecology and behaviour of primates and other large mammals ever since. She has written numerous papers and has co-edited three previous volumes on primates: Primate Evolution, Primate Ecology and Conservation and Primate Ontogeny, Cognition and Behaviour (all 1986) and co-authored The Threatened Primates of Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Part I. Comparative Methods: 1. The comparative method: principles
and illustrations from primate socioecology A. MacLarnon; 2. Cladistics as
a tool in comparative analysis K. Robson-Brown; 3. Phylogenetically
independent comparisons and primate phylogeny A. Purvis and A. J. Webster;
Part II. Comparative Life History and Biology: 4. Socioecology and the
evolution of primate reproductive rates C. Ross; 5. Comparative ecology of
post-natal growth and weaning among haplorhine primates P. C. Lee; 6. Some
current ideas about the evolution of the human life history N.
Blurton-Jones, K. Hawkes and J. O'Connell; 7. The evolutionary ecology of
the primate brain R. Barton; 8. Sex and social evolution in primates C. van
Schaik, M. A. van Noordwijk and C. L. Nunn; 9. Mating system, intrasexual
competition and sexual dimorphism in primates J. M. Plavcan; Part III.
Comparative Socioecology and Social Evolution: 10. Lemur social structure
and convergence in primate socioecology P. Kappeler; 11. Why is female kin
bonding so rare?: comparative sociality of neotropical primates K. Strier;
12. Energetics, time budgets and group size D. Williamson and R. Dunbar;
13. Ecology of sex differences in great ape foraging A. Bean; 14. The
evolution of human behaviour and adaptation: missing links in comparative
primate socioecology R. A. Foley; 15. Evolutionary ecology and
cross-cultural comparison: the case of matrilineal descent in Sub-Saharan
Africa R. Mace and C. Holden; Conclusion: socioecology and social evolution
P. C. Lee; Index.