| Description |
xii, 412 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in biological anthropology
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Primates -- Behavior.
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Primates -- Ecology.
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Primates -- Evolution.
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Social evolution in animals.
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| Added Author |
Lee, Phyllis C.
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| ISBN |
0521593360 (hb) |
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