Casual Groups Of Monkeys And Men
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Casual Groups Of Monkeys And Men
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Author : Joel E. Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1971
Casual Groups Of Monkeys And Men written by Joel E. Cohen and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Business & Economics categories.
Long Term Field Studies Of Primates
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Author : Peter M. Kappeler
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-01-07
Long Term Field Studies Of Primates written by Peter M. Kappeler and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-07 with Science categories.
Some primate field studies have been on-going for decades, covering significant portions of individual life cycles or even multiple generations. In this volume, leading field workers report on the history and infrastructure of their projects in Madagascar, Africa, Asia and South America. More importantly, they provide summaries of their long-term research efforts on primate behaviour, ecology and life history, highlighting insights that were only possible because of the long-term nature of the study. The chapters of this volume collectively outline the many scientific reasons for studying primate behaviour, ecology and demography over multiple generations. This kind of research is typically necessitated by the relatively slow life histories of primates. Moreover, a complete understanding of social organization and behaviour, factors often influenced by rare but important events, requires long-term data collection. Finally, long-term field projects are also becoming increasingly important foci of local conservation activities.
The Functional And Evolutionary Biology Of Primates
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Author : Russell Tuttle
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-23
The Functional And Evolutionary Biology Of Primates written by Russell Tuttle and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-23 with Science categories.
These original contributions on the evolution of primates and the techniques for studying the subject cover an enormous range of material and incorporate the work of specialists from many different fields, showing the necessity of a multidisciplinary approach to problems of primate morphology and phylogeny. Collectively, they demonstrate the concerns and methods of leading contemporary workers in this and related fields. Each contributor shows his way of attacking fundamental problems of evolutionary primatology.
Primate Social Systems
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Author : Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-03-09
Primate Social Systems written by Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-09 with Science categories.
This book grew from small beginnings as I began to find unexpected patterns emerging from the data in the literature. The more I thought about the way in which primate social systems worked, the more interesting things turned out to be. I am conscious that, at times, this has introduced a certain amount of complexity into the text. I make no apologies for that: what we are dealing with is a complex subject, the product of evolutionary forces interacting with very sophisticated minds. None the less, I have done my best to explain every thing as clearly as I can in order to make the book accessible to as wide an audience as possible. I have laid a heavy emphasis in this book on the use of simple graphical and mathematical models. Their sophistication, however, is not great and does not assume more than a knowledge of elementary probability theory. Since their role will inevitably be misunderstood, I take this opportunity to stress that their function is essentially heuristic rather than explanatory: they are designed to focus our attention on the key issues so as to point out the directions for further research. A model is only as good as the questions it prompts us to ask. For those whose natural inclination is to dismiss modelling out of hand, I can only point to the precision that their use can offer us in terms of hypothesis-testing.
Growing Points Ethology
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Author : P. P. G. Bateson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1976-10-07
Growing Points Ethology written by P. P. G. Bateson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976-10-07 with Science categories.
First published in 1976, this volume is a collection of essays by some of the most prominent and active ethologists. It is organized into four sections: motivation and perception, function and evolution, development, and human social relationships. The first three sections reflect the four questions which are basic to ethology: what were the immediate causes of a behaviour pattern; what is its biological function; how did it evolve; and how did it develop in the individual? The last section involves questions of all four types. The sections are introduced and linked by editorials and the book concludes with an important statement on asking the right questions. The essays are forward looking and identify areas of importance for the study of behaviour. The volume is a source of formative ideas for students, their teachers and research workers in a wide variety of disciplines in the biological psychological and social sciences.
Environmental Social Psychology
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Author : David Canter
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Environmental Social Psychology written by David Canter and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Psychology categories.
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Social and Environmental Psychology in the European Context, Lisbon, Portugal, September 22-26, 1986
Animal Groups In Three Dimensions
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Author : Julia K. Parrish
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-12-13
Animal Groups In Three Dimensions written by Julia K. Parrish and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-12-13 with Mathematics categories.
The first attempt to investigate this pervasive biological phenomenon from a variety of disciplines, from physics to mathematics to biology.
Foundations Of Animal Behavior
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Author : Lynne D. Houck
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1996-08
Foundations Of Animal Behavior written by Lynne D. Houck and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08 with Nature categories.
Beginning with Darwin's work in the 1870s, Foundations of Animal Behavior selects the most important works from the discipline's first hundred years—forty-four classic papers—and presents them in facsimile, tracing the development of the field. These papers are classics because they either founded a line of investigation, established a basic method, or provided a new approach to an important research question. The papers are divided into six sections, each introduced by prominent researchers. Sections one and two cover the origins and history of the field and the emergence of basic methods and approaches. They provide a background for sections three through six, which focus on development and learning; neural and hormonal mechanisms of behavior; sensory processes, orientation, and communication; and the evolution of behavior. This outstanding collection will serve as the basis for undergraduate and graduate seminars and as a reference for researchers in animal behavior, whether they focus on ethology, behavioral ecology, comparative psychology, or anthropology. Published in association with the Animal Behavior Society
Mammal Societies
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Author : Tim Clutton-Brock
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2016-05-31
Mammal Societies written by Tim Clutton-Brock and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-31 with Science categories.
The book aims to integrate our understanding of mammalian societies into a novel synthesis that is relevant to behavioural ecologists, ecologists, and anthropologists. It adopts a coherent structure that deals initially with the characteristics and strategies of females, before covering those of males, cooperative societies and hominid societies. It reviews our current understanding both of the structure of societies and of the strategies of individuals; it combines coverage of relevant areas of theory with coverage of interspecific comparisons, intraspecific comparisons and experiments; it explores both evolutionary causes of different traits and their ecological consequences; and it integrates research on different groups of mammals with research on primates and humans and attempts to put research on human societies into a broader perspective.
New Aspects Of Human Ethology
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Author : Klaus Atzwanger
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-11-23
New Aspects Of Human Ethology written by Klaus Atzwanger and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-23 with Science categories.
Rough-and-tumble play provided one of the paradigmatic examples of the appli- tion of ethological methods, back in the 1970's. Since then, a modest number of - searchers have developed our knowledge of this kind of activity, using a variety of methods, and addressing some quite fundamental questions about age changes, sex diff- ences, nature and function of behaviour. In this chapter I will review work on this topic, mentioning particularly the interest in comparing results from different informants and different methods of investigation. Briefly, rough-and-tumble play (or R&T for short) refers to a cluster of behaviours whose core is rough but playful wrestling and tumbling on the ground; and whose general characteristic is that the behaviours seem to be agonistic but in a non-serious, playful c- text. The varieties of R&T, and the detailed differences between rough-and-tumble play and real fighting, will be discussed later. 2. A BRIEF HISTORY OF RESEARCH ON R&T In his pioneering work on human play, Groos (1901) described many kinds of rough-and-tumble play. However, R&T was virtually an ignored topic from then until the late 1960's. There was, of course, a flowering of observational research on children in the 1920s and 1930s, especially in North America; but this research had a strong practical o- entation, and lacked the cross-species perspective and evolutionary orientation present in Groos' work.
