Understanding Behavior: What Primate Studies Tell Us About Human Behavior - Hardcover

 
9780195060201: Understanding Behavior: What Primate Studies Tell Us About Human Behavior
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0195060202 ISBN 13: 9780195060201
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

Scientific studies of monkeys, apes, and other nonhuman primates began just over 50 years ago. Since then tens of thousands of hours of observation have been made on these animals in the wild and in captivity. The chief rationale for scientific primatology has always been the belief that mportant insights into human behavior and society could be gained through studies of our evolutionary kin. This book reviews what we have learned. Distinguished researchers outline primatological insights in six areas: sex, parenting, behavioral development, aggression/dominance, culture and kinship. The chapters show how primates have been used as simplified models of human behaviors and how they have contributed to scenarios of human evolution. Lay readers, students, and specialists alike will find this a readable and useful compendium of the findings of scientific primatology.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1991
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0195060202
ISBN 13 
9780195060201
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
280
Herausgeber
Loy James D., Peters Calvin B.
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