Kinship and behavior in primates

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Kinship and behavior in primates

edited by Bernard Chapais, Carol M. Berman

Oxford University Press, 2004

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This book presents a series of review chapters on the various aspects of primate kinship and behavior, as a fundamental reference for students and professionals interested in primate behavior, ecology and evolution. The relatively new molecular data allow one to assess directly degrees of genetic relatedness and kinship relations between individuals, and a considerable body of data on intergroup variation, based on experimental studies in both free-ranging and captive groups has accumulated, allowing a rather full and satisfying reconsideration of this whole broad area of research. The book should be of considerable interest to students of social evolution and behavioral ecology.

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Contributors 1: Bernard Chapais and Carol M. Berman: Introduction: The Kinship Black Box Part I. Who Are Kin? Methodological Advances in Determining Kin Relationships 2: Philip A. Morin and Tony L. Goldberg: Determination of Genealogical Relationships from Genetic Data: A review of Methods and Applications 3: David S. Woodruff: Noninvasive Genotyping and Field Studies of Free-Ranging Nonhuman Primates Part II. Kin Compositions: Ecological Determinants, Population Genetics, and Demography 4: Lynne A. Isbell: Is There No Place Like Home? Ecological Bases of Female Dispersal and Philopatry and Their Consequences for the Formation of Kin Groups 5: Guy A. Hoelzer, Juan Carlos Morales, and Don J. Melnick: Dispersal and the Population Genetics of Primate Species 6: David A. Hill: The Effects of Demographic Variation on Kinship Structure and Behavior in Cercopithecines Part III. Diversity of Effects of Kinship on Behavior 7: Ellen Kapsalis: Matrilineal Kinship and Primate Behavior 8: Karen B. Strier: Patrilineal Kinship and Primate Behavior 9: Leanne T. Nash: Kinship and Behavior Among Nongregarious Nocturnal Prosimians: What Do We Really Know? 10: James Dietz: Kinship Structure and Reproductive Skew in Cooperatively Breeding Primates 11: Fernando Colmenares: Kinship Structure and Its Impact on Behavior in Multilevel Societies 12: Andreas Paul and Jutta Kuester: The Impact of Kinship on Mating and Reproduction Part IV. Kin Bias: Proximate and Functional Processes 13: Drew Rendall: "Recognizing" Kin: Mechanisms, Media, Minds, Modules, and Muddles 14: Carol M. Berman: Developmental Aspects of Kin Bias in Behavior 15: Dorthy L. Cheyney and Robert M. Seyfarth: The Recognition of Other Individuals' Kinship Relationships 16: Bernard Chapais and Patrick Belisle: Constraints on Kin Selection in Primate Groups Part IV. The Evolutionary Origins of Human Kinship 17: Lars Rodseth and Richard Wrangham: Human Kinship: A Continuation of Politics by Other Means? 18 Residence Groups Among Hunter-Gatherers: A View of the Claims and Evidence for Patrilocal Bands: Helen Perich Alvarez: 19 Mating, Parenting, and the Evolution of Human Pair Bonds: Kristen Hawkes: Conclusion 20 Variation in Nepotistic Regimes and Kin Recognition: A Major Area for Future Research: Bernard Chapais and Carol M. Berman: Species Index Subject Index

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