Edited by Bernard Chapais Carol M. Berman Oxford University Press, 2004 FROM THE DUST JACKET A fundamental reference for students and professionals interested in primate behavior, ecology, and evolution, this book presents a series of review chapters on the various aspects of primate kinship and behavior. It draws on the emergence of new molecular data in recent years, making possible the direct assessment of degrees of genetic relatedness and kinship relations between individuals. It creates a considerable body of data on intergroup variation. Experimental studies collected here in both free-ranging and captive groups allow for a full and satisfying consideration of this broad area of research. Kinship and Behavior in Primates is a comprehensive and critical summary from an impressive array of scholars, doubtless to interest students of social evolution and behavioral ecology. In Kinship and Behavior in Primates, the field's leading experts offer a fascinating series of investigations, analysis, and synthesis of the major aspects of the study of nonhuman primates. Bemard Chapais received a Ph.D. in Animal Behavior from the University of Cambridge. After conducting behavioral research among free-ranging rhesus macaques, he set up an experimental research program on kinship and social relationships among Japanese macaques at the Universite de Montreal, Canada, where he is currently a professor in the Department of Anthropology. Carol M. Berman received a B.A. in Psychology from Brandeis Universiy and a Ph.D. in Animal Behavior from the University of Cambridge. Currently a professor at the University of Buffalo, she conducts field research on parent-offspring relationships, social structure, and kin bias among rhesus and Tibetan monkeys. She lives in Orchard Park, N.Y., with her son. TABLE OF CONTENTS Contributors xi 1. Introduction: The Kinship Black Box 3 Bernard Chapais Carol M. Berman Part I. Who Are Kin? Methodological Advances in Determining Kin Relationships 2. Determination of Genealogical Relationships from Genetic Data: A Review of Methods and Applications 15 Phillip A. Morin Tony L. Goldberg 3. Noninvasive Genotyping and Field Studies of Free-Ranging Nonhuman Primates 46 David S. Woodruff Part II. Kin Compositions: Ecological Determinants, Population Genetics, and Demography 4. Is There No Place Like Home? Ecological Bases of Female Dispersal and Philopatry and Their Consequences for the Formation of Kin Groups 71 Lynne A. Isbell 5. Dispersal and the Population Genetics of Primate Species 109 Guy A. Hoelzer Juan Carlos Morales Don J. Melnick 6. The Effects of Demographic Variation on Kinship Structure and Behavior in Cercopithecines 132 David A. Hill Part III. Diversity of Effects of Kinship on Behavior 7. Matrilineal Kinship and Primate Behavior 153 Ellen Kapsalis 8. Patrilineal Kinship and Primate Behavior 177 Karen B. Strier 9. Kinship and Behavior Among Nongregarious Nocturnal Prosimians: What Do We Really Know? 200 Leanne T. Nash 10. Kinship Structure and Reproductive Skew in Cooperatively Breeding Primates 223 James M. Dietz 11. Kinship Structure and Its Impact on Behavior in Multilevel Societies 242 Fernando Colmenares 12. The Impact of Kinship on Mating and Reproduction 271 Andreas Paul Jutta Kuester Part IV. Kin Bias: Proximate and Functional Processes 13. "Recognizing" Kin: Mechanisms, Media, Minds, Modules, and Muddles 295 Drew Rendall 14. Developmental Aspects of Kin Bias in Behavior 317 Carol M. Berman 15. The Recognition of Other Individuals' Kinship Relationships 347 Dorothy L. Cheney Robert M. Seyfarth 16. Constraints on Kin Selection in Primate Groups 365 Bernard Chapais Patrick Belisle Part V. The Evolutionary Origins of Human Kinship 17. Human Kinship: A Continuation of Politics by Other Means? 389 Lars Rodseth Richard Wrangham 18. Residence Groups Among Hunter-Gatherers: A View of the Claims and Evidence for Patrilocal Bands 420 Helen Perich Alvarez 19. Mating, Parenting, and the Evolution of Human Pair Bonds 443 Kristen Hawkes Conclusion 20. Variation in Nepotistic Regimes and Kin Recognition: A Major Area for Future Research 477 Bernard Chapais Carol M. Berman Species Index 491 Subject Index 497 ***************************************************** ISBN: 0195148894 (hardcover) $89.50 USD 520 pp. ; 11 halftones & 14 line illus. *Save 20% off the list price when you place your order before Aug. 1, 2004. Please mention the promo code: 23562. *Special discount price $71.60 USD WHERE TO ORDER: Oxford University Press 2001 Evans Road Cary, NC 27513 Phone: (800)451-7556 Email: orders@oup-usa.org More info: www.oup.com/us Direct link to item in Oxford University Press online catalog: http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LifeSciences/Ecology/AnimalBehavior/?view=usa&ci=0195148894#titledescription Posted Date: 03/05/04
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