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By P. C. Lee

ISBN-10: 0521004241

ISBN-13: 9780521004244

ISBN-10: 0521593360

ISBN-13: 9780521593366

Comparative stories became either extra common and extra vital as a way for realizing the biology, behaviour and evolution of mammals. Primates have advanced social relationships and various ecologies, and symbolize a wide species radiation. This ebook attracts jointly quite a lot of specialists from fields as various as reproductive biology and foraging energetics to put fresh box learn right into a artificial point of view. The chapters take on debatable concerns in primate biology and behavior, together with the position of mind enlargement and infanticide within the evolution of primate behavioural thoughts. The booklet additionally provides an summary of comparative methodologies as utilized to contemporary primate learn to be able to offer new techniques to comparative learn. it will likely be of specific curiosity to primatologists, behavioural ecologists and people attracted to the evolution of human social behaviour.

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