Research Catalog

Title

Comparative primate socioecology / edited by P.C. Lee.

Publication

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Lee, Phyllis C.

Description

xii, 412 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in biological anthropology ; 22

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in biological anthropology ; 22.

Subjects

• Social evolution in animals
• Primates > Evolution
• Primates > Ecology
• Primates > Behavior

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

ISBN

0521593360 (hb)

LCCN

98036457

OCLC

ocm39515796

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries