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The Evolution of human behavior : primate models / Warren G. Kinzey, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in primatologyPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �1987.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 299 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585064865
  • 9780585064864
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Evolution of human behavior.DDC classification:
  • 599.8/0451 19
LOC classification:
  • QL737.P9 E96 1987eb
NLM classification:
  • QL 737.P9
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Warren G. Kinzey -- 1. Behavioral innovations -- Gathering by females: the chimpanzee model revisited and the gathering hypothesis / Nancy M. Tanner -- Transportation of resources: reconstructions of early hominid socioecology: a critique of primate models / Richard Potts -- 2. Primate-derived models -- African apes: the significance of African apes for reconstructing human social evolution / Richard W. Wrangham -- Chimpanzees: Pygmy chimpanzees and common chimpanzees: models for the behavioral ecology of the earliest hominids / Randall L. Susman -- Baboons: baboon models and muddles / Shirley C. Strum & William Mitchell -- Monogamous primates: a primate model for human mating systems / Warren G. Kinzey -- Howler monkeys: diet, dimorphism, and demography: perspectives from howlers to hominids / Carolyn M. Crockett -- 3. Paleoecological models -- Cytogenetic methods: social and ecological aspects of primate cytogenetics / Jon Marks -- Morpho-physiological analysis of diets: species-specific dietary patterns in primates and human dietary adaptations / Robert W. Sussman -- 4. Theoretical issues -- The reconstruction of hominid behavioral evolution through strategic modeling / John Tooby and Irven DeVore.
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Papers presented at a symposium in Chicago at the Eighty-second Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Nov. 19, 1983, sponsored by the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-287).

Includes indexes.

Print version record.

Introduction / Warren G. Kinzey -- 1. Behavioral innovations -- Gathering by females: the chimpanzee model revisited and the gathering hypothesis / Nancy M. Tanner -- Transportation of resources: reconstructions of early hominid socioecology: a critique of primate models / Richard Potts -- 2. Primate-derived models -- African apes: the significance of African apes for reconstructing human social evolution / Richard W. Wrangham -- Chimpanzees: Pygmy chimpanzees and common chimpanzees: models for the behavioral ecology of the earliest hominids / Randall L. Susman -- Baboons: baboon models and muddles / Shirley C. Strum & William Mitchell -- Monogamous primates: a primate model for human mating systems / Warren G. Kinzey -- Howler monkeys: diet, dimorphism, and demography: perspectives from howlers to hominids / Carolyn M. Crockett -- 3. Paleoecological models -- Cytogenetic methods: social and ecological aspects of primate cytogenetics / Jon Marks -- Morpho-physiological analysis of diets: species-specific dietary patterns in primates and human dietary adaptations / Robert W. Sussman -- 4. Theoretical issues -- The reconstruction of hominid behavioral evolution through strategic modeling / John Tooby and Irven DeVore.

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