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Richard W. Wrangham
A startling new theory that the invention of cooking led to the creation of the human species
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Craig Stanford
Taking us to Gombe National Park in Tanzania, a place made famous by Jane Goodall’s studies, the book offers a close look at how predation by wild chimpanzees-observable in the…
Seeking common principles of social evolution in different taxonomic groups, the contributors to this volume discuss eighteen groups of birds and mammals for which long-term field studies have been carried…
This book presents extensive field research and analysis to evaluate sexual coercion in a range of species-including all of the great apes and humans-and to clarify its role in shaping…
Knowledge of wild chimpanzees has expanded dramatically. This volume, edited by Martin Muller, Richard Wrangham, and David Pilbeam, brings together scientists who are leading a revolution to discover and explain…
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Barbara B. Smuts
Primate Societies is a synthesis of the most current information on primate socioecology and its theoretical and empirical significance, spanning the disciplines of behavioral biology, ecology, anthropology, and psychology. It…
The world’s leading authorities on chimpanzees and bonobos chronicle the animals’ behaviors from one study site to the next, in both captive and wild groups, in laboratory and field settings.
Nine of the world’s top primate experts compose the most extensive picture to date of what the behavior of monkeys and apes can tell us about our own evolution as…
