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Author : Meredith F. Small
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501718029
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Female Choices written by Meredith F. Small and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Female Choices".
Author : Takeshi Furuichi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9784431554813
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Dispersing Primate Females written by Takeshi Furuichi and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do females in male-philopatric species seem to show larger variation in their life history strategies than males in female-philopatric species? Why did females in human societies come to show enormous variation in the patterns of marriage, residence, and mating activities? To tackle these important questions, this book presents the latest knowledge about the dispersing females in male-philopatric non-human primates and in human societies. The non-human primates that are covered include muriquis, spider monkeys, woolly monkeys, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and some species of colobine monkeys. In these non-human primate species females typically leave their natal group before sexual maturation and start reproduction in other groups into which they immigrate. However, there is a large variation as some females may breed in their natal group with some risks of inbreeding with their male relatives, and some females may associate with males of multiple groups at the same time after leaving their natal group. Such variation seems to provide better strategies for reproduction depending on local circumstances. Although knowledge about female dispersal patterns and life history is indispensable for understanding the dynamic structure of primate societies, it is still not known how females behave after leaving their natal groups, how many groups they visit before finally settling down, and which kinds of groups they choose to immigrate into, due to the large variation and flexibility and the difficulty of tracking females after natal dispersal. To encourage further progress in this important field, this volume provides new insights on evolution of female dispersal by describing factors influencing variations in the dispersal pattern across primates and a hypothesis for the formation of human families from the perspectives of female life history. This book is recommended reading for researchers and students in primatology, anthropology, animal behavior, and evolution, and for anyone interested in primate societies and human evolution.
Author : Meredith F. Small
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Female Primates written by Meredith F. Small and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin N. Muller
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674033245
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (332 download)
Download or read book Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans written by Martin N. Muller and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-19 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents extensive field research and analysis to evaluate sexual coercion in a range of species—including all of the great apes and humans—and to clarify its role in shaping social relationships among males, among females, and between the sexes.
Author : Jim Ottaviani
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1596438657
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (964 download)
Download or read book Primates written by Jim Ottaviani and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun and immersive look into the lives of the three greatest primatologists of the twentieth century: Biruté Galdikas, Dian Fossey, and Jane Goodall, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Feynman.
Author : Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674038878
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Woman That Never Evolved written by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be female? Sarah Blaffer Hrdy--a sociobiologist and a feminist--believes that evolutionary biology can provide some surprising answers. Surprising to those feminists who mistakenly think that biology can only work against women. And surprising to those biologists who incorrectly believe that natural selection operates only on males. In The Woman That Never Evolved we are introduced to our nearest female relatives competitive, independent, sexually assertive primates who have every bit as much at stake in the evolutionary game as their male counterparts do. These females compete among themselves for rank and resources, but will bond together for mutual defense. They risk their lives to protect their young, yet consort with the very male who murdered their offspring when successful reproduction depends upon it. They tolerate other breeding females if food is plentiful, but chase them away when monogamy is the optimal strategy. When "promiscuity" is an advantage, female primates--like their human cousins--exhibit a sexual appetite that ensures a range of breeding partners. From case after case we are led to the conclusion that the sexually passive, noncompetitive, all-nurturing woman of prevailing myth never could have evolved within the primate order. Yet males are almost universally dominant over females in primate species, and Homo sapiens is no exception. As we see from this book, women are in some ways the most oppressed of all female primates. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is convinced that to redress sexual inequality in human societies, we must first understand its evolutionary origins. We cannot travel back in time to meet our own remote ancestors, but we can study those surrogates we have--the other living primates. If women --and not biology--are to control their own destiny, they must understand the past and, as this book shows us, the biological legacy they have inherited.
Author : Larissa Swedell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317343824
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Strategies of Sex and Survival in Female Hamadryas Baboons written by Larissa Swedell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the first field study focusing on the behavior of hamadryas females in the wild. In its attempt to rectify the male-biased view of hamadryas baboon behavior that has persisted over the decades, this book suggests that female behavior contributes more to hamadryas social organization than has previously been assumed and that females may, in fact, be acting in their own best interests after all. For upper-level undergraduate courses on primate behavior and ecology.
Author : Takeshi Furuichi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 4431554807
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Dispersing Primate Females written by Takeshi Furuichi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do females in male-philopatric species seem to show larger variation in their life history strategies than males in female-philopatric species? Why did females in human societies come to show enormous variation in the patterns of marriage, residence and mating activities? To tackle these important questions, this book presents the latest knowledge about the dispersing females in male-philopatric non-human primates and in human societies. The non-human primates that are covered include muriquis, spider monkeys, woolly monkeys, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and some species of colobine monkeys. In these non-human primate species females typically leave their natal group before sexual maturation and start reproduction in other groups into which they immigrate. However, there is a large variation as some females may breed in their natal group with some risks of inbreeding with their male relatives and some females may associate with males of multiple groups at the same time after leaving their natal group. Such variation seems to provide better strategies for reproduction depending on local circumstances. Although knowledge about female dispersal patterns and life history is indispensable for understanding the dynamic structure of primate societies, it is still not known how females behave after leaving their natal groups, how many groups they visit before finally settling down and which kinds of groups they choose to immigrate into, due to the large variation and flexibility and the difficulty of tracking females after natal dispersal. To encourage further progress in this important field, this volume provides new insights on evolution of female dispersal by describing factors influencing variations in the dispersal pattern across primates and a hypothesis for the formation of human families from the perspectives of female life history. This book is recommended reading for researchers and students in primatology, anthropology, animal behavior and evolution and for anyone interested in primate societies and human evolution.
Author : Jill Pruetz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317344081
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Socioecology of Adult Female Patas Monkeys and Vervets in Kenya written by Jill Pruetz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For upper-level and/or graduate level Primatology or Biological Anthropology courses. Socioecology of Adult Female Patas Monkeys and Vervet in Kenya, East Africa provides students with a glimpse into a research project from start to finish. It discusses basic issues of studying primates and explores one of the major theories that has defined primatology for several decades. This text not only contributes detail on primate behavior, but also on the ecological variables that influence primate behavior. These are often difficult to measure, but the unique environment at the study site enabled the author to address questions that are much more difficult to answer elsewhere.
Author : Clara Jones
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 038723327X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Behavioral Flexibility in Primates written by Clara Jones and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-09-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous figures, illustrations, and tables; integration of new literature and concepts into field of primatology; emphasis upon both behavioral and cognitive mechanisms.
Author : Adam Clark Arcadi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1107197171
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Wild Chimpanzees written by Adam Clark Arcadi and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to chimpanzee behavior and conservation, synthesizing findings from long-term field studies in the African rainforest belt.
Author : Meredith F. Small
Publisher : Wiley-Liss
ISBN 13 : 9780471834182
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Female Primates written by Meredith F. Small and published by Wiley-Liss. This book was released on 1984-04-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael E. Pereira
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226656229
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (562 download)
Download or read book Juvenile Primates written by Michael E. Pereira and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 prepare juveniles for adulthood and to help them survive the juvenile stage, 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 new foreword and bibliography prepared by the editors. Contributors: Filippo Aureli, Bernard Chapais, Marina Cords, Carolyn M. Crockett, Frans B. M. de Waal, Carolyn Pope Edwards, Robert Fagen, Carole Gauthier, Paul H. Harvey, Charlotte K. Hemelrijk, Loek A. M. Herremans, Julia A. Horrocks, Wayne Hunte, Charles H. Janson, Nicholas Blurton Jones, Katharine Milton, Leanne T. Nash, Timothy G. O'Brien, Mark D. Pagel, Theresa R. Pope, Anne E. Pusey, Lal Singh Rajpurohit, John G. Robinson, Thelma Rowell, Daniel I. Rubenstein, Volker Sommer, Elisabeth H. M. Sterck, Karen B. Strier, Carel P. van Schaik, Maria A. van Noordwijk, David P. Watts, and Carol M. Worthman.
Author : John C. Mitani
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226531732
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Primate Societies written by John C. Mitani and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1987, the University of Chicago Press published Primate Societies, the standard reference in the field of primate behavior for an entire generation of students and scientists. But in the twenty-five years since its publication, new theories and research techniques for studying the Primate order have been developed, debated, and tested, forcing scientists to revise their understanding of our closest living relatives. Intended as a sequel to Primate Societies, The Evolution of Primate Societies compiles thirty-one chapters that review the current state of knowledge regarding the behavior of nonhuman primates. Chapters are written by the leading authorities in the field and organized around four major adaptive problems primates face as they strive to grow, maintain themselves, and reproduce in the wild. The inclusion of chapters on the behavior of humans at the end of each major section represents one particularly novel aspect of the book, and it will remind readers what we can learn about ourselves through research on nonhuman primates. The final section highlights some of the innovative and cutting-edge research designed to reveal the similarities and differences between nonhuman and human primate cognition. The Evolution of Primate Societies will be every bit the landmark publication its predecessor has been.
Author : Barbara Welker
Publisher : Open SUNY Textbooks
ISBN 13 : 9781942341413
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (414 download)
Download or read book The History of Our Tribe written by Barbara Welker and published by Open SUNY Textbooks. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where did we come from? What were our ancestors like? Why do we differ from other animals? How do scientists trace and construct our evolutionary history? The Evolution of Our Tribe: Hominini provides answers to these questions and more. The book explores the field of paleoanthropology past and present. Beginning over 65 million years ago, Welker traces the evolution of our species, the environments and selective forces that shaped our ancestors, their physical and cultural adaptations, and the people and places involved with their discovery and study. It is designed as a textbook for a course on Human Evolution but can also serve as an introductory text for relevant sections of courses in Biological or General Anthropology or general interest. It is both a comprehensive technical reference for relevant terms, theories, methods, and species and an overview of the people, places, and discoveries that have imbued paleoanthropology with such fascination, romance, and mystery.
Author : Linda Marie Fedigan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226239484
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Primate Paradigms written by Linda Marie Fedigan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-06 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical review of behavior patterns in nonhuman primates is an excellent study of the importance of female roles in different social groups and their significance in the evolution of human social life. "A book that properly illuminates in rich detail not only developmental and socioecological aspects of primate behavior but also how and why certain questions are asked. In addition, the book frequently focuses on insufficiently answered questions, especially those concerned with the evolution of primate sex differences. Fedigan's book is unique . . . because it places primate adaptations and our explanation of those patterns in a larger intellectual framework that is easily and appropriately connected to many lines of research in different fields (sociology, psychology, anthropology, neurobiology, endocrinology, and biology)—and not in inconsequential ways, either."—James McKenna, American Journal of Primatology "This is the feminist critique of theories of primate and human evolution."—John H. Cook, Nature
Author : Donna J. Haraway
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136608141
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Primate Visions written by Donna J. Haraway and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haraway's discussions of how scientists have perceived the sexual nature of female primates opens a new chapter in feminist theory, raising unsettling questions about models of the family and of heterosexuality in primate research.
