Comparative primate socioecology

Description:

This book draws together a wide range of experts from fields as diverse as reproductive biology and foraging energetics to place recent field research into a synthetic perspective. The chapters tackle controversial issues in primate biology and behaviour, including the role of brain expansion and infanticide in the evolution of primate behavioural strategies. The book also presents an overview of comparative. Methodologies as applied to recent primate research that will provide new approaches to comparative research. It will be of particular interest to primatologists, behavioural ecologists and those interested in the evolution of human social behaviour.

subjects: Evolution,  Ecology,  Primates,  Behavior,  Social evolution in animals,  Animals,  Öko-Ethologie,  NATURE,  Sociaal diergedrag,  SCIENCE,  Zoology,  Attitudes,  Écologie,  Primatology,  Sociale ecologie,  Animal Behavior,  Life Sciences,  Primaten,  Évolution sociale chez les animaux,  Évolution,  Social Behavior,  Moeurs et comportement,  Sozialökologie,  Verhalten,  Aufsatzsammlung,  Primates, behavior,  Primates, evolution,  Social evolution,  Biological Evolution