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Seasonality in primate ecology, reproduction, and life history : an overview / Carel P. van Schaik & Diane K. Brockman -- Tropical climates and phenology : a primate perspective / Carel P. van Schaik & Kristina R. Pfannes -- The influence of seasonality on primate diet and ranging / Claire A. Hemingway & Nora Bynum -- Seasonality in predation risk : varying activity periods in lemurs and other primates / Michele A. Rasmussen -- Physiological adaptations to seasonality in nocturnal primates / Jutta Schmid & Peter M. Kappeler -- Seasonality and long-term change in a savanna environment / Susan C. Alberts [and others] -- Day length seasonality and the thermal environment / Russell Hill -- Seasonality in hunting by non-human primates / John C. Mitani & David P. Watts -- Human hunting seasonality / Rebecca Bliege Bird & Douglas W. Bird -- Seasonality and reproductive function / Diane K. Brockman & Carel P. van Schaik -- Seasonality of primate births in relation to climate / Charles Janson & Jennifer Verdolin -- Energetic responses to food availability in the great apes : implications for hominin evolution / Cheryl D. Knott -- Human birth seasonality / Peter T. Ellison, Claudia R. Valeggia & Diana S. Sherry -- Seasonality, social organization, and sexual dimorphism in primates / J. Michael Plavcan, Carel P. van Schaik & W. Scott McGraw -- Seasonality and primate communities / Carel P. van Schaik, Richard Madden & Jörg U. Ganzhorn -- Primate diversity and environmental seasonality in historical perspective / Nina G. Jablonski -- Tropical and temperate seasonal influences on human evolution / Kaye E. Reed & Jennifer L. Fish -- Orbital controls on seasonality / John D. Kingston -- What do studies of primate seasonality tell us about human evolution? / Diane K. Brockman.

The emergence of the genus Homo is widely linked to the colonization of 'new' highly seasonal savannah habitats. However, until recently, 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 2005 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 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.