Title Seasonality in Primates : Studies of Living and Extinct Human and Non-Human Primates / edited by Diane K. Brockman, Carel P. van Schaik

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (604 pages) Series Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology ; no. 44 Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; no. 44. Contents Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Part I Introduction; Part II Seasonal habitats; Part III Seasonality and behavioral ecology; Part IV Seasonality, reproduction, and social organization; Part V Seasonality and community ecology; Part VI Seasonality and human evolution; Index Summary The emergence of the genus Homo is widely linked to the colonization of "new" highly seasonal savannah habitats. However, until now, our understanding of the possible impact of seasonality on this shift has been limited because we have little general knowledge of how seasonality affects the lives of primates. This book documents the extent of seasonality in food abundance in tropical woody vegetation, and then presents systematic analyses of the impact of seasonality in food supply on the behavioural ecology of non-human primates. Syntheses in this volume then produce for the first time broad generalizations concerning the impact of seasonality on behavioural ecology and reproduction in both human and non-human primates, and apply these insights to primate and human evolution. Written for graduate students and researchers in biological anthropology and behavioural ecology, this is an absorbing account of how seasonality may have affected an important episode in our own evolution Analysis Primate seasonality Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Primates -- Seasonal variations -- Congresses Primates -- Evolution -- Congresses Human evolution -- Congresses Primates -- Physiology. Seasons. Animal behavior -- Physiology Ecology. Evolution. Physiology, Comparative. Evolution (Biology) Primates -- physiology Seasons Behavior, Animal -- physiology Biological Evolution Ecology Physiology, Comparative evolution. ecology. NATURE -- Animals -- Mammals. SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Mammals. Evolution (Biology) Ecology Evolution Human evolution Physiology, Comparative Primates -- Evolution Primates -- Physiology Seasons Genre/Form proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Form Electronic book Author Brockman, Diane K Van Schaik, Carel P ISBN 9780511542343 0511542348 9780511130670 0511130678 9780521820691 0521820693 9781107406469 1107406463 9780511200311 0511200315

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