SEASONALITY IN PRIMATES by Diane K. Brockman (Editor), Carel P. Van Schaik (Editor) ( 9780521820691 )

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SEASONALITY IN PRIMATES
STUDIES OF LIVING AND EXTINCT HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN PRIMATES

By:

Diane K. Brockman (Editor), Carel P. Van Schaik (Editor)

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0521820693

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9780521820691

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

17 November, 2005

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology 44

Pages:

606

Description:

This book explores how seasonal variation in resource abundance might have driven primate and human evolution.

Synopsis:

The emergence of the genus Homo is widely linked to the colonization of 'new' highly seasonal savannah habitats. However, until recently, 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 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.

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100 b/w illus. 51 tables

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Cambridge University Press

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