Primate Behavior And Human Origins
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Primate Behavior and Human Origins
Author | : Glenn E. King |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2015-10-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781317526667 |
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This comprehensive introduction demonstrates the theoretical perspectives and concepts that are applied to primate behavior, and explores the relevance of non-human primates to understanding human behavior. Using a streamlined and student-friendly taxonomic framework, King provides a thorough overview of the primate order. The chapters cover common features and diversity, and touch on ecology, sociality, life history, and cognition. Text boxes are included throughout the discussion featuring additional topics and more sophisticated taxonomy. The book contains a wealth of illustrations, and further resources to support teaching and learning are available via a companion website. Written in an engaging and approachable style, this is an invaluable resource for students of primate behavior as well as human evolution.
Tree of Origin
Author | : Frans B. M. de Waal |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780674033023 |
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How did we become the linguistic, cultured, and hugely successful apes that we are? Our closest relatives--the other mentally complex and socially skilled primates--offer tantalizing clues. In Tree of Origin nine of the world's top primate experts read these clues and compose the most extensive picture to date of what the behavior of monkeys and apes can tell us about our own evolution as a species. It has been nearly fifteen years since a single volume addressed the issue of human evolution from a primate perspective, and in that time we have witnessed explosive growth in research on the subject. Tree of Origin gives us the latest news about bonobos, the make love not war apes who behave so dramatically unlike chimpanzees. We learn about the tool traditions and social customs that set each ape community apart. We see how DNA analysis is revolutionizing our understanding of paternity, intergroup migration, and reproductive success. And we confront intriguing discoveries about primate hunting behavior, politics, cognition, diet, and the evolution of language and intelligence that challenge claims of human uniqueness in new and subtle ways. Tree of Origin provides the clearest glimpse yet of the apelike ancestor who left the forest and began the long journey toward modern humanity.
Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior
Author | : Tetsuro Matsuzawa |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 2008-06-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9784431094227 |
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Biologists and anthropologists in Japan have played a crucial role in the development of primatology as a scientific discipline. Publication of Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior under the editorship of Tetsuro Matsuzawa reaffirms the pervasive and creative role played by the intellectual descendants of Kinji Imanishi and Junichiro Itani in the fields of behavioral ecology, psychology, and cognitive science. Matsuzawa and his colleagues-humans and other primate partners- explore a broad range of issues including the phylogeny of perception and cognition; the origin of human speech; learning and memory; recognition of self, others, and species; society and social interaction; and culture. With data from field and laboratory studies of more than 90 primate species and of more than 50 years of long-term research, the intellectual breadth represented in this volume makes it a major contribution to comparative cognitive science and to current views on the origin of the mind and behavior of humans.
Primate Behaviour
Author | : Duane Quiatt,Vernon Reynolds |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0521498325 |
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Stressing direct connections between human and nonhuman society, this book about the social life of monkeys, apes and humans emphasizes the importance of social information and knowledge in the understanding of primate behavior and organization.
Primate Evolution and Human Origins
Author | : Russell L. Ciochon |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1091 |
Release | : 2017-09-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781351496681 |
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Primate Evolution and Human Origins compiles, for the first time, the major ideas and publications that have shaped our current view of the evolutionary biology of the primates and the origin of the human line. Designed for freshmen-to-graduate students in anthropology, paleontology, and biology, the book is a unique collection of classic papers, culled from the past 20 years of research. It is also an important reference for academicians and researchers, as it covers the entire scope of primate and human evolution (with an emphasis on the fossil record). A comprehensive bibliography cites over 2000 significant articles not found in the main text.
The Primate Origins of Human Nature
Author | : Carel P. Van Schaik |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2016-01-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780470147634 |
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The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral ecology and primate psychology, classical physical anthropology and evolutionary psychology of humans. However, unlike similar books, it strives to define the human species relative to our living and extinct relatives, and thus highlights uniquely derived human features. The book features a truly multi-disciplinary, multi-theory, and comparative species approach to subjects not usually presented in textbooks focused on humans, such as the evolution of culture, life history, parenting, and social organization.
The Evolution of Primate Societies
Author | : John C. Mitani,Josep Call,Peter M. Kappeler,Ryne A. Palombit,Joan B. Silk |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 746 |
Release | : 2012-10-24 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780226531731 |
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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.
The Evolution of Primate Behavior
Author | : Alison Jolly |
Publsiher | : Macmillan College |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105039984294 |
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