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Primate Anatomy : An Introduction
ISBN: 9780123725769 / Angielski / Miękka / 724 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This book is unlike ay other work on primates: it systematically reviews the biology of all living primates, including humans. It describes their bio-geographical information and provides crucial data pertaining to their body size, fur coloration external distinguishing features, habitat and basic life strategies. Now in its third edition, Primate Anatomy discusses species that are new to science since the last edition with details concerning anatomical features among primates that were re-discovered. New research in molecular primatology is also included due to recent... This book is unlike ay other work on primates: it systematically reviews the biology of all living primates, including humans. It describes their b... |
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331,86 zł |
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The Evolution of Hemispheric Specialization in Primates
ISBN: 9780123741974 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Hemispheric specialization, and lateralized sensory, cognitive or motor function of the left and right halves of the brain, commonly manifests in humans as right-handedness and left hemisphere specialization of language functions. Historically, this has been considered a hallmark of, and unique to, human evolution. Some theories propose that human right-handedness evolved in the context of language and speech while others that it was a product of the increasing motor demands associated with feeding or tool-use. In the past 20-25 years, there has been a plethora of research in animals on the...
Hemispheric specialization, and lateralized sensory, cognitive or motor function of the left and right halves of the brain, commonly manifests in huma...
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315,86 zł |
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Strategies of Sex and Survival in Female Hamadryas Baboons : Through a Female Lens
ISBN: 9780131845480 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. 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.
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...
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187,78 zł |
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A Natural History of the Brown Mouse Lemur
ISBN: 9780132432719 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This text can be used for any undergraduate or graduate course with a primate behavior or primate ecology component. It can also be used as supplemental reading, for any advanced animal behavior class. There are very few books that address the biology of nocturnal primates. There are even fewer that delve with any detail regarding the behavior of specific species. These animals are difficult to follow. Their diminutive size, the thickness of the vegetation, and their nocturnal habits, make the study of their habits a demanding task.Through a trial of patience, Sylvia Atsalis has undertaken... This text can be used for any undergraduate or graduate course with a primate behavior or primate ecology component. It can also be used as supplem... |
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161,09 zł |
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Infant Chimpanzee and Human Child : A Classic 1935 Comparative Study of Ape Emotions and Intelligence
ISBN: 9780195135657 / Angielski / Twarda / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This edition presents the first complete English translation of N.N. Ladygina-Kohts' journal chronicling her pioneering work with the chimpanzee, Joni. The journal entries describe and compare the instincts, emotions, play, and habits of her son Rudy and Joni as each develops. First published in Moscow in 1935 as a memoir in the Darwin Museum Series, this edition has 120 photographs, 46 drawings and an introduction by Allen and Beatrix Gardner of the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Nevada, as well as a Foreword and an Afterword by Lisa A. Parr, Signe Preuschoft, and Frans B. M....
This edition presents the first complete English translation of N.N. Ladygina-Kohts' journal chronicling her pioneering work with the chimpanzee, Joni...
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485,91 zł |
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Kinship and Behavior in Primates
ISBN: 9780195148893 / Angielski / Twarda / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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...
This book presents a series of review chapters on the various aspects of primate kinship and behavior, as a fundamental reference for students and pro...
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1048,92 zł |
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Machiavellian Intelligence : Social Expertise and the Evolution of Intellect in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
ISBN: 9780198521754 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book presents an alternative to conventional ideas about the evolution of the human intellect. Instead of placing top priority on the role of tools, the pressure for their skillful use, and the related importance of interpersonal communication as a means for enhanced cooperation, this volume explores quite a different idea-- that the driving force in the evolution of human intellect was social expertise--a force which enabled the manipulation of others within the social group, who themselves are seen as posing the most challenging problems faced by primitive humans. The need to outwit...
This book presents an alternative to conventional ideas about the evolution of the human intellect. Instead of placing top priority on the role of too...
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908,17 zł |
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Infectious Diseases in Primates : Behavior, Ecology and Evolution
ISBN: 9780198565857 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In combination with predation and competition for resources, infectious disease is a key ecological factor that influences the evolution of animal mating and social systems. Studies also illuminate the central role that infectious disease plays in the lives of some mammals.
In combination with predation and competition for resources, infectious disease is a key ecological factor that influences the evolution of animal mat...
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502,80 zł |
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Primate Evolution and Human Origins
ISBN: 9780202011752 / Angielski / Miękka / 411 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Primate Evolution and Human Origins compiles, for the first time, the major ideas and publications that have shaped our current view of the evolutionary biology of the primates and the origin of the human line. Designed for freshmen-to-graduate students in anthropology, paleontology, and biology, the book is a unique collection of classic papers, culled from the past 20 years of research. It is also an important reference for academicians and researchers, as it covers the entire scope of primate and human evolution (with an emphasis on the fossil record). A comprehensive bibliography cites...
Primate Evolution and Human Origins compiles, for the first time, the major ideas and publications that have shaped our current view of the evolutiona...
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214,46 zł |
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Primate Ethology
ISBN: 9780202308265 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This is a groundbreaking work in the field of ethology (the zoological study of animal behavior) which was rapidly gaining ground in the 1960s when this collection was first published. These specially commissioned papers bought together studies of monkeys and apes from both the laboratory and the field. All of the contributors had been trained in the Lorenz/Tinbergen school, and include Jane Goodall, R. Hinde and Y. Spencer-Booth, M. Moynihan, T. E. Rowell, Caroline Loizos, John Sparks, Wolfgang Wickler, and J. van Hooff.
This is a groundbreaking work in the field of ethology (the zoological study of animal behavior) which was rapidly gaining ground in the 1960s when th...
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214,46 zł |
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Primate Societies : Group Techniques of Ecological Adaptation
ISBN: 9780202309040 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. In this book, Hans Kummer, one of the world's leading primate ethologists, examines the patterns of social interaction among primates. He examines this social behavior from the fundamentally biological viewpoint of evolutionary adaptation as part of the survival mechanisms for the species. Recognizing that all activity is constituted in part of genetic programming and in part of adaptive behavior, he explores the borderline area between the genetic and the "cultural." By use of astute observation and clever experimentation he shows that many aspects of social behavior are inherited, and... In this book, Hans Kummer, one of the world's leading primate ethologists, examines the patterns of social interaction among primates. He examines ... |
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214,46 zł |
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The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates
ISBN: 9780202361390 / Angielski / Miękka / 487 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. These original contributions on the evolution of primates and the techniques for studying the subject cover an enormous range of material and incorporate the work of specialists from many different fields, showing the necessity of a multidisciplinary approach to problems of primate morphology and phylogeny. Collectively, they demonstrate the concerns and methods of leading contemporary workers in this and related fields. Each contributor shows his way of attacking fundamental problems of evolutionary primatology.
These original contributions on the evolution of primates and the techniques for studying the subject cover an enormous range of material and incorpor...
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241,14 zł |
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Foraging for Survival: Yearling Baboons in Africa
ISBN: 9780226015965 / Angielski / Miękka / 617 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Stuart A. Altmann presents the results of one of the most intensive investigations ever carried out on foraging behavior and its consequences for survival and reproduction.
Stuart A. Altmann presents the results of one of the most intensive investigations ever carried out on foraging behavior and its consequences for surv...
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284,17 zł |
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Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind
ISBN: 9780226102436 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. In 1838 Charles Darwin jotted in a notebook, He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke. "Baboon Metaphysics "is DorothyL.Cheney and Robert M.Seyfarth s fascinating response to Darwin s challenge.
Cheney and Seyfarth set up camp in Botswana s Okavango Delta, where they could intimately observe baboons and their social world. Baboons live in groups of up to 150, including a handful of males and eight or nine matrilineal families of females. Such numbers force baboons to form a complicated mix of short-term bonds for mating and longer-term friendships based on... In 1838 Charles Darwin jotted in a notebook, He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke. "Baboon Metaphysics "is DorothyL....
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172,95 zł |
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Primate Paradigms : Sex Roles and Social Bonds
ISBN: 9780226239484 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. 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... This critical review of behavior patterns in nonhuman primates is an excellent study of the importance of female roles in different social groups and ...
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165,36 zł |
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Gorilla Society : Conflict, Compromise, and Cooperation Between the Sexes
ISBN: 9780226316031 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Societies develop as a result of the interactions of individuals as they compete and cooperate with one another in the evolutionary struggle to survive and reproduce successfully. Gorilla society is arranged according to these different and sometimes conflicting evolutionary goals of the sexes. In seeking to understand why gorilla society exists as it does, Alexander H. Harcourt and Kelly J. Stewart bring together extensive data on wild gorillas, collected over decades by numerous researchers working in diverse habitats across Africa, to illustrate how the social system of gorillas has... Societies develop as a result of the interactions of individuals as they compete and cooperate with one another in the evolutionary struggle to sur... |
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165,36 zł |
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Living New World Monkeys (Platyrrhini), Volume 1: With an Introduction to Primates
ISBN: 9780226327884 / Angielski / Twarda / 1132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. In this long-awaited work, Philip Hershkovitz provides the most thorough and comprehensive treatise ever published on New World monkeys. The volume gives a detailed account of the origin, evolution, dispersal, and behavior of platyrrhines and a systematic arrangement of all known forms, living and extinct. During an eleven-year period, Hershkovitz examined more than 3,100 museum-preserved specimens and relevant primate fossils and observed hundreds of animals in captivity and thousands in the wild state. He presents his results in an elegant and encyclopedic text, lavishly illustrated with...
In this long-awaited work, Philip Hershkovitz provides the most thorough and comprehensive treatise ever published on New World monkeys. The volume gi...
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888,33 zł |
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Primate Life Histories and Socioecology
ISBN: 9780226424644 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. We know a great deal about the role the environment plays in organizing primate social systems and in shaping reproductive success and survival. But how do primate life histories affect social systems and behaviour? Does the baboon's reproductive pattern, for example, play a role in the organization of baboon troops? Does chimpanzee maturation factor into the formation of bands and marauding males?
We know a great deal about the role the environment plays in organizing primate social systems and in shaping reproductive success and survival. But h...
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188,12 zł |
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The Chimpanzees of Kibale Forest : A Field Study of Ecology and Social Structure
ISBN: 9780231055949 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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654,81 zł |
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Intelligence of Apes and Other Rational Beings
ISBN: 9780300099836 / Angielski / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What is animal intelligence? In what ways is it similar to human intelligence? Many behavioral scientists have realized that animals can be rational, can think in abstract symbols, can understand and react to human speech, and can learn through observation as well as conditioning many of the more complicated skills of life. Now Duane Rumbaugh and David Washburn probe the mysteries of the animal mind even further, identifying an advanced level of animal behavior--emergents--that reflects animals' natural and active inclination to make sense of the world. Rumbaugh and Washburn unify all...
What is animal intelligence? In what ways is it similar to human intelligence? Many behavioral scientists have realized that animals can be rational, ...
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378,93 zł |
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