Primate Life Histories and Socioecology
Contributors: Peter M. Kappeler (Editor); Michael E. Pereira (Editor)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780226424637
Subjects: Animal Ecology; Primate Behavior; Nature; Science; Science/Mathematics; Anthropology - Physical; Life Sciences - Zoology - Primatology; Social Science / Anthropology / Physical; Apes & Monkeys; Life Sciences - Ecology; Behavior; Ecology; Evolution; Primates
First sentence: One major goal socioecology is to explain the evolution of diversity among social systems, which are defined in relation to both groupings characteristics and the nature of social and mating relationships within groups.