Peter M. Kappeler

Margarete Boos

Michaela Kolbe

Thomas Ellwart

Coordination in Human and Primate Groups presents one of the first collections of the different approaches and methods used to assess coordination processes in groups. Written by psychologists and primatologists, the book represents a broad range of coordination research fields such as social psychology, work and organizational psychology, medicine, primatology, and behavioural ecology. It is designed for researchers and practitioners interested in understanding the behavioural aspects of group coordination.

Coordination in Human and Primate Groups

​This textbook presents all basic principles of animal behaviour in a clear and concise manner and illustrates them with up-to-date examples. Emphasis is placed on behavioural biology as an integrative discipline of organismic biology, focusing on the adaptive value of behaviours that facilitate resource access, predator avoidance and reproductive success and underlie parental care, all within a comprehensive presentation of social complexity. This new textbook provides a rich resource for students (and teachers) from a wide range of life science disciplines.

An Evolutionary Perspective

Animal Behaviour

Carel P. van Schaik

Sexual Selection in Primates provides an account of all aspects of sexual selection in primates, combining theoretical insights, comprehensive reviews of the primate literature and comparative perspectives from relevant work on other mammals, birds and humans. Topics include sex roles, sexual dimorphism in weapons, ornaments and armaments, sex ratios, sex differences in behaviour and development, mate choice, sexual conflict, sex-specific life history strategies, sperm competition and infanticide. The outcome of the evolutionary struggle between the sexes, the flexibility of roles and the leverage of females are discussed and emphasised throughout. Sexual Selection in Primates is aimed at graduates and researchers in primatology, animal behaviour, evolutionary biology and comparative psychology.

New and Comparative Perspectives

Sexual Selection in Primates

Joan B. Silk

Josep Call

John C. Mitani

Ryne A. Palombit

In 1987, the University of Chicago Press published Primate Societies, the standard reference in the field of primate behavior for an entire generation of students and scientists. But in the twenty-five years since its publication, new theories and research techniques for studying the Primate order have been developed, debated, and tested, forcing scientists to revise their understanding of our closest living relatives. Intended as a sequel to Primate Societies, The Evolution of Primate Societies compiles thirty-one chapters that review the current state of knowledge regarding the behavior of nonhuman primates. Chapters are written by the leading authorities in the field and organized around four major adaptive problems primates face as they strive to grow, maintain themselves, and reproduce in the wild. The inclusion of chapters on the behavior of humans at the end of each major section represents one particularly novel aspect of the book, and it will remind readers what we can learn about ourselves through research on nonhuman primates. The final section highlights some of the innovative and cutting-edge research designed to reveal the similarities and differences between nonhuman and human primate cognition. The Evolution of Primate Societies will be every bit the landmark publication its predecessor has been.

The Evolution of Primate Societies

Charles L. Nunn

The Sociality--health--fitness Nexus in Animal Societies

Jürgen Tautz

Juergen Heinze

Nils Anthes

Ralph Bergmüller

Wolf Blanckenhorn

H. Jane Brockmann

Claudia Fichtel

Lutz Fromhage

Joachim Frommen

Wolfgang Goymann

Katharina Hirschenhauser

Heribert Hofer

Sylvia Kaiser

Bart Kempenaers

Gerald Kerth

Judith Ingrid Korb

Kurt M. Kotrschal

Cornelila Kraus

Martha Manser

Nico Michiels

Robin F. A. Moritz

Mario Pahl

Dustin Penn

Norbert Sachser

Martin Schaefer

Jutta M. Schneider

Isabella Schreiber

Michael Taborsky

Fritz Trillmich

Shaowu Zhang

This up-to-date review examines key areas of animal behaviour, including communication, cognition, conflict, cooperation, sexual selection and behavioural variation. Various tests are covered, including recent empirical examples.

Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms

Explores male number variation between and within primate species and its effects on male-female relationships.

Causes and Consequences of Variation in Group Composition

Primate Males

David P. Watts

Some primate field studies have been on-going for decades, covering significant portions of individual life cycles or even multiple generations. In this volume, leading field workers report on the history and infrastructure of their projects in Madagascar, Africa, Asia and South America. More importantly, they provide summaries of their long-term research efforts on primate behaviour, ecology and life history, highlighting insights that were only possible because of the long-term nature of the study. The chapters of this volume collectively outline the many scientific reasons for studying primate behaviour, ecology and demography over multiple generations. This kind of research is typically necessitated by the relatively slow life histories of primates. Moreover, a complete understanding of social organization and behaviour, factors often influenced by rare but important events, requires long-term data collection. Finally, long-term field projects are also becoming increasingly important foci of local conservation activities.

Long-Term Field Studies of Primates

Peter M. Kappeler

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