Evolution of social behaviour patterns in primates and man : a joint discussion meeting of the Royal Society and the British Academy /
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Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, c1996. |
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Description: | vi, 297 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 88 |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2502112 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Social Evolution in Primates: The Role of Ecological Factors and Male Behaviour
- Determinants of Group Size in Primates: A General Model
- Function and Intention in the Calls of Non-Human Primates
- Why Culture Is Common, but Cultural Evolution Is Rare
- An Evolutionary and Chronological Framework for Human Social Behaviour
- Friendship and the Banker's Paradox: Other Pathways to the Evolution of Adaptations for Altruism
- The Early Prehistory of Human Social Behaviour: Issues of Archaeological Inference and Cognitive Evolution
- The Emergence of Biologically Modern Populations in Europe: A Social and Cognitive 'Revolution'?
- Responses to Environmental Novelty: Changes in Men's Marriage Strategies in a Rural Kenyan Community
- Genetic Language Impairment: Unruly Grammars
- The Emergence of Cultures among Wild Chimpanzees
- Terrestriality, Bipedalism and the Origin of Language
- Conclusions