Author: Takeshi Furuichi
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: primatology, progress, prospects, developments, conservation, behavior, ecology, bonobos
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 2008-03-03
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 0387747850
ISBN-13: 9780387747859

Among all great ape species, the bonobo is still the least studied in both captivity and the wild. Nevertheless we have observed a considerable increase in knowledge across various fields of bonobo research in recent years. In part due to the ongoing peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo, research and conservation activities on the bonobo have resumed and multiplied since 2001. Part One of The Bonobos: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation focuses on scientific research. Behavioral studies in captivity propose to answer why bonobos have some unique characteristics such as high soc

Author: W. C. McGrew
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: primatology, cultural, reflections, chimpanzee, cultured
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 2004-11-22
List price: $54.00
ISBN-10: 0521535433
ISBN-13: 9780521535434

Short of inventing a time machine, we will never see our extinct forebears in action and be able to determine directly how human behaviour and culture has developed. However, we can learn from our closest living relatives, the African great apes. The Cultured Chimpanzee explores the astonishing variation in chimpanzee behavior across their range, which cannot be explained by individual learning, genetic or environmental influences. It promotes the view that this rich diversity in social life and material culture reflects social learning of traditions, and more closely resembles cultural variet

Author: Amanda Rees
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: field, science, art, primatology, controversy, infanticide
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-11-15
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0226707113
ISBN-13: 9780226707112

Infanticide in the natural world might be a relatively rare event, but as Amanda Rees shows, it has enormously significant consequences. Identified in the 1960s as a phenomenon worthy of investigation, infanticide had, by the 1970s, become the focus of serious controversy. The suggestion, by Sarah Hrdy, that it might be the outcome of an evolved strategy intended to maximize an individual’s reproductive success sparked furious disputes between scientists, disagreements that have continued down to the present day.  Meticulously tracing the history of the infanticide debates, and drawing on e

Author: Allan M. Schrier
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Keywords: volume, vol, theory, research, primatology, advances, behavioural
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1978-02
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0470992689
ISBN-13: 9780470992685

Authors:Callum F. Ross, Richard F. Kay,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: primatology, progress, prospects, developments, visions, origins, new, anthropoid
Number of Pages: 739
Published: 2004-05-31
List price: $245.00
ISBN-10: 0306481200
ISBN-13: 9780306481208

This second edition will be an edited volume of interest to those who do research and teach about the evolution of primates. It aims to convey to primatologists, anthropologists, palaeontologists, and neuroscientists the most recent studies of primate phylogeny, the anthropoid fossil record, the evolution of the primate visual system, and the origin of the anthropoid social systems. This title includes a CD-ROM and color figures.

Author: Warren G. Kinzey
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: suny, series, primatology, models, primate, human, behavior, evolution
Number of Pages: 299
Published: 1986-12
List price: $55.50
ISBN-10: 0887062679
ISBN-13: 9780887062674

Author: William D. Hopkins
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: special, topics, primatology, volume, primates, hemispheric, specialization, evolution
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2008-03-24
List price: $77.95
ISBN-10: 0123741971
ISBN-13: 9780123741974

Hemispheric specialization, and lateralized sensory, cognitive or motor function of the left and right halves of the brain, commonly manifests in humans as right-handedness and left hemisphere specialization of language functions. Historically, this has been considered a hallmark of, and unique to, human evolution. Some theories propose that human right-handedness evolved in the context of language and speech while others that it was a product of the increasing motor demands associated with feeding or tool-use. In the past 20-25 years, there has been a plethora of research in animals on the