Juvenile primates
Subtitle: life history, development, and behavior : with a new foreword
By: edited by Michael E. Pereira, Lynn A. Fairbanks.
Contributors: Pereira, Michael Eric, 1956-; Fairbanks, Lynn A.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
Subjects: Primates -- Infancy.; Primates -- Behavior.; Primates -- Development.; Social behavior in animals.
Description: "The First and Still the Only Book Focused Exclusively on Juvenile Primates, this collection presents original research covering all the major divisions of primates, from prosimians to humans. Contributors explore the evolutionary history of the juvenile stage in primates; differences in behavior between juvenile males and females; how juvenile behaviors act both to help juveniles survive the juvenile stage and to prepare them for adulthood; how juveniles learn about and participate in social conflict and dominance relationships; and the similarities and differences between development of juvenile human and nonhuman primates. This edition includes a substantial new foreword and bibliography prepared by the editors. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Notes: Originally published: New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Includes bibliographical references and index.