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Macaque Societies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 438

Macaque Societies

Animal and human societies are multifaceted. In order to understand how they have evolved, it is necessary to investigate each of the constituent facets including individual abilities and personalities, life-history traits, mating systems, demographic dynamics, gene flows, social relationships, ecology and phylogeny. By exploring the nature and evolution of macaque social organization, this book develops our knowledge of the rise of societies and their transformation during the course of evolution. Macaques are the most comprehensively studied of all monkey groups, and the 20 known species feature a broad diversity in their social relationships, making them a particularly good group for exploring the evolution of societies. This book will be of primary interest to those studying animal behaviour and primatology, but will also be useful to those involved in the study of human societies.

Wildlife Review
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1140

Wildlife Review

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1986
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Evolutionary Biology of Human Body Fatness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 395

The Evolutionary Biology of Human Body Fatness

Integrates medical and evolutionary data on the role of body fat in human biology, including the current obesity epidemic.

Feeding Ecology in Apes and Other Primates
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 546

Feeding Ecology in Apes and Other Primates

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Seasonality in Primates
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 616

Seasonality in Primates

This book explores how seasonal variation in resource abundance might have driven primate and human evolution.

Pandora's Garden
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

Pandora's Garden

Pandora's Garden profiles invasive or unwanted species in the natural world and examines how our treatment of these creatures sometimes parallels in surprising ways how we treat each other. Part essay, part nature writing, part narrative nonfiction, the chapters in Pandora's Garden are like the biospheres of the globe; as the successive chapters unfold, they blend together like ecotones, creating a microcosm of the world in which we sustain nonhuman lives but also contain them. There are many reasons particular flora and fauna may be unwanted, from the physical to the psychological. Sometimes they may possess inherent qualities that when revealed help us to interrogate human perception and o...

Spider Monkeys
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 422

Spider Monkeys

Spider monkeys are one of the most widespread New World primate genera, ranging from southern Mexico to Bolivia. Although they are common in zoos, spider monkeys are traditionally very difficult to study in the wild, because they are fast moving, live high in the canopy and are almost always found in small subgroups that vary in size and composition throughout the day. This book is an assimilation of both published and previously unpublished research. It is a comprehensive source of information for academic researchers and graduate students interested in primatology, evolutionary anthropology and behavioral ecology and covers topics such as taxonomy, diet, sexuality and reproduction, and conservation.

The Bioarchaeology of Children
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

The Bioarchaeology of Children

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Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia

Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia focuses uniquely on the physical remains of the prehistoric peoples of this region.

Animal Ethos
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

Animal Ethos

What kinds of moral challenges arise from encounters between species in laboratory science? Animal Ethos draws on ethnographic engagement with academic labs in which experimental research involving nonhuman species provokes difficult questions involving life and death, scientific progress, and other competing quandaries. Whereas much has been written on core bioethical values that inform regulated behavior in labs, Lesley A. Sharp reveals the importance of attending to lab personnel’s quotidian and unscripted responses to animals. Animal Ethos exposes the rich—yet poorly understood—moral dimensions of daily lab life, where serendipitous, creative, and unorthodox responses are evidence of concerted efforts by researchers, animal technicians, veterinarians, and animal activists to transform animal laboratories into moral scientific worlds.