Comparative primate socioecology
By: edited by P.C. Lee.
Contributors: Lee, Phyllis C.
Series: Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology -- 22
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
Subjects: Primates; Ecology; Evolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Comparative method: principles and illustrations from primitive socioecology -- Ann Maclarnon; title: Cladistics as a tool in comparative analysis -- Kate Robson-Brown; title: Phylogenetically independent comparisons and primate phylogeny -- Andrew Purvis and Andrea J. Webster; title: Socioecology and the evolution of primate reproductive rates -- Caroline Ross and Kate E. Jones; title: Comparative ecology of postnatal growth and weaning among haplorhine primates -- Phyllis C. Lee; title: Some current ideas about the evolution of the human life history -- Nicholas Blurton Jones, Kristen Hawkes and James F. O'Connell; title: Evolutionary ecology of the primate brain -- Robert Barton; title: Sex and social evolution in primates -- Carel P. Van Schaik, Maria A. Van Noordwijk and Charles L. Nunn; title: Mating systems, intrasexual competition and sexual dimorphism in primates -- J. Michael Plavcan; title: Lemur social structure and convergence in primate socioecology -- Peter M. Kappeler; title: Why is female kin bonding so rare? Comparative sociality of neotropical primates -- Karen B. Strier; title: Energetics, time budgets and group size -- Daisy K. Williamson and Robin Dunbar; title: Ecology of sex differences in great ape foraging -- Allison Bean; title: Hominid behavioural evolution: missing links in comparative primate socioecology -- Robert A. Foley; title: Evolutionary ecology and cross-cultural comparison: the case of matrilineal descent in sub-Saharan Africa -- Ruth Mace and Clare Holden -- Editor's conclusion:; title: Socioecology and social evolution.