Seasonality in Primates (eBook, PDF)

Studies of Living and Extinct Human and Non-Human Primates
Redaktion: Brockman, Diane K.

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Produktbeschreibung

The emergence of the genus Homo is widely linked to the colonization of 'new' highly seasonal savannah habitats. However, until recently, our understanding of the possible impact of seasonality on this shift has been limited because we have little general knowledge of how seasonality affects the lives of primates. This book documents the extent of seasonality in food abundance in tropical woody vegetation, and then presents systematic analyses of the impact of seasonality in food supply on the behavioural ecology of non-human primates. Syntheses in this volume then produce broad generalizations concerning the impact of seasonality on behavioural ecology and reproduction in both human and non-human primates, and apply these insights to primate and human evolution. Written for graduate students and researchers in biological anthropology and behavioural ecology, this is an absorbing account of how seasonality may have affected an important episode in our own evolution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511128516
• Artikelnr.: 38185007

Autorenporträt

DIANE K. BROCKMAN is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, having moved recently from Duke University, NC. Her research concerns environmental mechanisms influencing reproduction, development and life history in human and non-human primates. Current studies involve the hormonal basis of seasonal reproduction, female mate competition, male life history patterns and aging, and the metabolic costs of reproduction in females.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Seasonality in primate ecology,
reproduction, and life history: an overview Carel P. van Schaik and Diane
K. Brockman; Part II. Seasonal Habitats: 2. Tropical climates and
phenology: a primate perspective Carel P. van Schaik and Kristina Pfannes;
Part III. Seasonality and Behavioural Ecology: 3. The influence of
seasonality on primate diet and ranging Claire Hemingway and Nora Bynum; 4.
Seasonality in predation risk: varying activity periods in lemurs and other
primates Michele Rasmussen; 5. Physiological adaptations to seasonality in
nocturnal primates Jutta Schmid and Peter Kappeler; 6. Seasonality and
long-term change in a savannah environment Susan C. Alberts, Jeanne
Altmann, Julie A Hollister-Smith, Raphael S. Mututua, Serah N. Sayialel,
Philip M. Muruthi and Kinyua Warutere; 7. Day length seasonality and the
thermal environment Russell Hill; 8. Seasonality in hunting by nonhuman
primates John C. Mitani and David P. Watts; 9. Human hunting seasonality
Rebecca Bliege-Bird and Douglas W. Bird; Part IV. Seasonality,
Reproduction, and Social Organisation: 10. Seasonality and reproductive
function Diane K. Brockman and Carel P. van Schaik; 11. Seasonality of
primate births in relation to climate Charles Janson and Jennifer Verdolin;
12. Energetic responses to food availability in the great apes:
implications for hominin evolution Cheryl D. Knott; 13. Human birth
seasonality Peter T. Ellison, Claudia R. Valeggia and Diana S. Sherry; 14.
Seasonality, social organisation, and sexual dimorphism in primates J.
Michael Plavcan, Carel P. van Schaik and W. Scott McGraw; Part V.
Seasonality and Community Ecology: 15. Seasonality and primate communities
Carel P. van Schaik, Richard Madden and Jörg U. Ganzhorn; 16. Primate
diversity and environmental seasonality in historical perspective Nina G.
Jablonski; Part VI. Seasonality and Human Evolution: 17. Tropical and
temperate seasonal influences on human evolution Kaye Reed and Jennifer L.
Fish; 18. Orbital controls on seasonality John D. Kingston; 19. What do
studies of primate seasonality tell us about human evolution? Diane K.
Brockman.