Female Primates
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Female Primates
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Author : Meredith F. Small
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Female Primates written by Meredith F. Small and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Science categories.
Female Choices
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Author : Meredith F. Small
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-31
Female Choices written by Meredith F. Small and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-31 with Social Science categories.
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The Woman That Never Evolved
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Author : Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
The Woman That Never Evolved written by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy 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 2009-07-01 with Science categories.
What does it mean to be female? Sarah Blaffer Hrdy--a sociobiologist and a feminist--believes that evolutionary biology can provide some surprising answers. Surprising to those feminists who mistakenly think that biology can only work against women. And surprising to those biologists who incorrectly believe that natural selection operates only on males. In The Woman That Never Evolved we are introduced to our nearest female relatives competitive, independent, sexually assertive primates who have every bit as much at stake in the evolutionary game as their male counterparts do. These females compete among themselves for rank and resources, but will bond together for mutual defense. They risk their lives to protect their young, yet consort with the very male who murdered their offspring when successful reproduction depends upon it. They tolerate other breeding females if food is plentiful, but chase them away when monogamy is the optimal strategy. When "promiscuity" is an advantage, female primates--like their human cousins--exhibit a sexual appetite that ensures a range of breeding partners. From case after case we are led to the conclusion that the sexually passive, noncompetitive, all-nurturing woman of prevailing myth never could have evolved within the primate order. Yet males are almost universally dominant over females in primate species, and Homo sapiens is no exception. As we see from this book, women are in some ways the most oppressed of all female primates. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is convinced that to redress sexual inequality in human societies, we must first understand its evolutionary origins. We cannot travel back in time to meet our own remote ancestors, but we can study those surrogates we have--the other living primates. If women --and not biology--are to control their own destiny, they must understand the past and, as this book shows us, the biological legacy they have inherited.
Dispersing Primate Females
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Author : Takeshi Furuichi
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-06-05
Dispersing Primate Females written by Takeshi Furuichi and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-05 with Science categories.
Why do females in male-philopatric species seem to show larger variation in their life history strategies than males in female-philopatric species? Why did females in human societies come to show enormous variation in the patterns of marriage, residence and mating activities? To tackle these important questions, this book presents the latest knowledge about the dispersing females in male-philopatric non-human primates and in human societies. The non-human primates that are covered include muriquis, spider monkeys, woolly monkeys, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and some species of colobine monkeys. In these non-human primate species females typically leave their natal group before sexual maturation and start reproduction in other groups into which they immigrate. However, there is a large variation as some females may breed in their natal group with some risks of inbreeding with their male relatives and some females may associate with males of multiple groups at the same time after leaving their natal group. Such variation seems to provide better strategies for reproduction depending on local circumstances. Although knowledge about female dispersal patterns and life history is indispensable for understanding the dynamic structure of primate societies, it is still not known how females behave after leaving their natal groups, how many groups they visit before finally settling down and which kinds of groups they choose to immigrate into, due to the large variation and flexibility and the difficulty of tracking females after natal dispersal. To encourage further progress in this important field, this volume provides new insights on evolution of female dispersal by describing factors influencing variations in the dispersal pattern across primates and a hypothesis for the formation of human families from the perspectives of female life history. This book is recommended reading for researchers and students in primatology, anthropology, animal behavior and evolution and for anyone interested in primate societies and human evolution.
Strategies Of Sex And Survival In Female Hamadryas Baboons
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Author : Larissa Swedell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-15
Strategies Of Sex And Survival In Female Hamadryas Baboons written by Larissa Swedell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-15 with Social Science categories.
This book describes the first field study focusing on the behavior of hamadryas females in the wild. In its attempt to rectify the male-biased view of hamadryas baboon behavior that has persisted over the decades, this book suggests that female behavior contributes more to hamadryas social organization than has previously been assumed and that females may, in fact, be acting in their own best interests after all. For upper-level undergraduate courses on primate behavior and ecology.
Female Primates
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Author : Meredith F. Small
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Liss
Release Date : 1984-04-01
Female Primates written by Meredith F. Small and has been published by Wiley-Liss this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-04-01 with Science categories.
The Socioecology Of Adult Female Patas Monkeys And Vervets In Kenya
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Author : Jill Pruetz
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-07-22
The Socioecology Of Adult Female Patas Monkeys And Vervets In Kenya written by Jill Pruetz and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-22 with Social Science categories.
For upper-level and/or graduate level Primatology or Biological Anthropology courses. Socioecology of Adult Female Patas Monkeys and Vervet in Kenya, East Africa provides students with a glimpse into a research project from start to finish. It discusses basic issues of studying primates and explores one of the major theories that has defined primatology for several decades. This text not only contributes detail on primate behavior, but also on the ecological variables that influence primate behavior. These are often difficult to measure, but the unique environment at the study site enabled the author to address questions that are much more difficult to answer elsewhere.
Primate Paradigms
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Author : Linda Marie Fedigan
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1992-06
Primate Paradigms written by Linda Marie Fedigan 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 1992-06 with Science categories.
This critical review of behavior patterns in nonhuman primates is an excellent study of the importance of female roles in different social groups and their significance in the evolution of human social life. "A book that properly illuminates in rich detail not only developmental and socioecological aspects of primate behavior but also how and why certain questions are asked. In addition, the book frequently focuses on insufficiently answered questions, especially those concerned with the evolution of primate sex differences. Fedigan's book is unique . . . because it places primate adaptations and our explanation of those patterns in a larger intellectual framework that is easily and appropriately connected to many lines of research in different fields (sociology, psychology, anthropology, neurobiology, endocrinology, and biology)—and not in inconsequential ways, either."—James McKenna, American Journal of Primatology "This is the feminist critique of theories of primate and human evolution."—John H. Cook, Nature
Growing Up Female
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Author : Sandra Rose McLaughlin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Growing Up Female written by Sandra Rose McLaughlin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with categories.
Beauty And The Beasts
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Author : Carole Jahme
language : en
Publisher: Soho Press
Release Date : 2003-07
Beauty And The Beasts written by Carole Jahme and has been published by Soho Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07 with Fiction categories.
Why are the majority of primatologists women? Mary Leakey, Dian Fossey, and Jane Goodall are among the women profiled as Carole Jahme explores the unusual bond between female primatologists and their simian subjects.