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| Other authors / contributors: | Brockman, Diane K.
Van Schaik, Carel P.
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| ISBN: | 9780511542343
0511542348
9780511130670
0511130678
1280415274
9781280415272
0511129149
9780511129148
0521820693
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Summary: | The emergence of the genus Homo is widely linked to the colonization of "new" highly seasonal savannah habitats. However, until now, 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 for the first time 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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| Other form: | Print version: 9780521820691
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