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Author: K. A. I. Nekaris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-19
Total Pages: 515
ISBN-13: 1108429025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book to present the latest discoveries on the behaviour, ecology and evolutionary biology of lorises and pottos.
Author: Gottfried Hohmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-10-19
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 9780521858373
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Author: Nicholas Blurton Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-01-21
Total Pages: 511
ISBN-13: 1316425215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Hadza, an ethnic group indigenous to northern Tanzania, are one of the few remaining hunter-gatherer populations. Archaeology shows 130,000 years of hunting and gathering in their land but Hadza are rapidly losing areas vital to their way of life. This book offers a unique opportunity to capture a disappearing lifestyle. Blurton Jones interweaves data from ecology, demography and evolutionary ecology to present a comprehensive analysis of the Hadza foragers. Discussion centres on expansion of the adaptationist perspective beyond topics customarily studied in human behavioural ecology, to interpret a wider range of anthropological concepts. Analysing behavioural aspects, with a specific focus on relationships and their wider impact on the population, this book reports the demographic consequences of different patterns of marriage and the availability of helpers such as husbands, children, and grandmothers. Essential for researchers and graduate students alike, this book will challenge preconceptions of human sociobiology.
Author: Rosemary-Claire Collard
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2020-08-24
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 1478012463
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParrots and snakes, wild cats and monkeys---exotic pets can now be found everywhere from skyscraper apartments and fenced suburban backyards to roadside petting zoos. In Animal Traffic Rosemary-Claire Collard investigates the multibillion-dollar global exotic pet trade and the largely hidden processes through which exotic pets are produced and traded as lively capital. Tracking the capture of animals in biosphere reserves in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize; their exchange at exotic animal auctions in the United States; and the attempted rehabilitation of former exotic pets at a wildlife center in Guatemala, Collard shows how exotic pets are fetishized both as commodities and as objects. Their capture and sale sever their ties to complex socio-ecological networks in ways that make them appear as if they do not have lives of their own. Collard demonstrates that the enclosure of animals in the exotic pet trade is part of a bioeconomic trend in which life is increasingly commodified and objectified under capitalism. Ultimately, she calls for a “wild life” politics in which animals are no longer enclosed, retain their autonomy, and can live for the sake of themselves.
Author: Bernard Thierry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-09-16
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780521818476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnimal 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.
Author: Ivan Norscia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-06-09
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1107016088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comparative study of lemurs in the context of shared ancestral links with both humans and primates.
Author: W. Scott McGraw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-05-10
Total Pages: 17
ISBN-13: 1139461591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA great deal has been written about primates; however few volumes have focused on an entire community of sympatric monkeys at a single site. Drawing upon diverse sets of data, the authors provide a multi-thematic case study of the entire monkey community of the Taï forest (Ivory Coast). Much of the book explores how the seven monkey species have adapted to hunting pressures from chimpanzees, leopards, crowned eagles and humans. Other themes covered include feeding ecology, social behaviour, positional behaviour and habitat use, vocal communication and conservation. Colour photographs of all species are provided, showing the major behavioural characteristics of each, as little is known about these West African monkeys. This scientifically important volume will be of interest to a broad audience including primatologists, functional anatomists, psychologists, and behavioural ecologists.
Author: Kerry M. Dore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-02-23
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1107109965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA how-to guide for ethnoprimatological research in the Anthropocene, offering an inside look at the latest research in the field.
Author: Diane K. Brockman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-11-17
Total Pages: 616
ISBN-13: 9780521820691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores how seasonal variation in resource abundance might have driven primate and human evolution.
Author: Muntaser E. Ibrahim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-12-19
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 1107072026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA pioneering work that focuses on the unique diversity of African genetics, offering insights into human biology and genetic approaches.
