Seasonality in primates :
Seasonality in primates : studies of living and extinct human and non-human primates /
edited by Diane K. Brockman, Carel P. van Shaik.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 590 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 44 .
- Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 44. .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Seasonality in primate ecology, reproduction, and life history : an overview / Tropical climates and phenology : a primate perspective / The influence of seasonality on primate diet and ranging / Seasonality in predation risk : varying activity periods in lemurs and other primates / Physiological adaptations to seasonality in nocturnal primates / Seasonality and long-term change in a savanna environment / Day length seasonality and the thermal environment / Seasonality in hunting by non-human primates / Human hunting seasonality / Seasonality and reproductive function / Seasonality of primate births in relation to climate / Energetic responses to food availability in the great apes : implications for hominin evolution / Human birth seasonality / Seasonality, social organization, and sexual dimorphism in primates / Seasonality and primate communities / Primate diversity and environmental seasonality in historical perspective / Tropical and temperate seasonal influences on human evolution / Orbital controls on seasonality / What do studies of primate seasonality tell us about human evolution? / Carel P. van Schaik & Diane K. Brockman -- Carel P. van Schaik & Kristina R. Pfannes -- Claire A. Hemingway & Nora Bynum -- Michele A. Rasmussen -- Jutta Schmid & Peter M. Kappeler -- Susan C. Alberts [and others] -- Russell Hill -- John C. Mitani & David P. Watts -- Rebecca Bliege Bird & Douglas W. Bird -- Diane K. Brockman & Carel P. van Schaik -- Charles Janson & Jennifer Verdolin -- Cheryl D. Knott -- Peter T. Ellison, Claudia R. Valeggia & Diana S. Sherry -- J. Michael Plavcan, Carel P. van Schaik & W. Scott McGraw -- Carel P. van Schaik, Richard Madden & Jörg U. Ganzhorn -- Nina G. Jablonski -- Kaye E. Reed & Jennifer L. Fish -- John D. Kingston -- 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.
9780511542343 (ebook)
Primates--Seasonal variations--Congresses.
Primates--Evolution--Congresses.
Human evolution--Congresses.
Primates--Physiology.
QL737.P9 / S42 2005
599.8143
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Seasonality in primate ecology, reproduction, and life history : an overview / Tropical climates and phenology : a primate perspective / The influence of seasonality on primate diet and ranging / Seasonality in predation risk : varying activity periods in lemurs and other primates / Physiological adaptations to seasonality in nocturnal primates / Seasonality and long-term change in a savanna environment / Day length seasonality and the thermal environment / Seasonality in hunting by non-human primates / Human hunting seasonality / Seasonality and reproductive function / Seasonality of primate births in relation to climate / Energetic responses to food availability in the great apes : implications for hominin evolution / Human birth seasonality / Seasonality, social organization, and sexual dimorphism in primates / Seasonality and primate communities / Primate diversity and environmental seasonality in historical perspective / Tropical and temperate seasonal influences on human evolution / Orbital controls on seasonality / What do studies of primate seasonality tell us about human evolution? / Carel P. van Schaik & Diane K. Brockman -- Carel P. van Schaik & Kristina R. Pfannes -- Claire A. Hemingway & Nora Bynum -- Michele A. Rasmussen -- Jutta Schmid & Peter M. Kappeler -- Susan C. Alberts [and others] -- Russell Hill -- John C. Mitani & David P. Watts -- Rebecca Bliege Bird & Douglas W. Bird -- Diane K. Brockman & Carel P. van Schaik -- Charles Janson & Jennifer Verdolin -- Cheryl D. Knott -- Peter T. Ellison, Claudia R. Valeggia & Diana S. Sherry -- J. Michael Plavcan, Carel P. van Schaik & W. Scott McGraw -- Carel P. van Schaik, Richard Madden & Jörg U. Ganzhorn -- Nina G. Jablonski -- Kaye E. Reed & Jennifer L. Fish -- John D. Kingston -- 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.
9780511542343 (ebook)
Primates--Seasonal variations--Congresses.
Primates--Evolution--Congresses.
Human evolution--Congresses.
Primates--Physiology.
QL737.P9 / S42 2005
599.8143