This manual covers the primate societies studied by Hans Kummer, a leading ethologist. The book examines primate social interactions from a biological perspective, focusing on evolutionary adaptation as a survival mechanism. It explores the interplay between genetic programming and adaptive behavior, highlighting how social behaviors are inherited and learned, influenced by ecological factors. Drawing on extensive research, including studies of the Hamadryas baboon, the text provides insights into the daily lives and general characteristics of various primate societies across different continents.
The manual details primate communication, social structures, and economies, with particular attention to kinship and age groups, as well as behavioral differences based on age and sex, and mating and grouping systems. It also discusses the ecological functions of key social parameters like group size, coordination, dominance, leadership, and spatial arrangements. The second part of the book investigates the origins of primate behavioral traits from phylogenetic, ecological, and cultural viewpoints, using data-driven examples to explain evolutionary processes.
In this book, Hans Kummer, one of the world's leading primate ethologists, examines the patterns of social interaction among primates. He examines this social behavior from the fundamentally biological viewpoint of evolutionary adaptation as part of the survival mechanisms for the species. Recognizing that all activity is constituted in part of genetic programming and in part of adaptive behavior, he explores the borderline area between the genetic and the "cultural." By use of astute observation and clever experimentation he shows that many aspects of social behavior are inherited, and differentially inherited among various primate groups. These data also show, however, that the individuals and troops learn much in primate social life and that these forms are responsive to particular ecological situations. Drawing heavily on knowledge gleaned from his own well-known studies of the Hamadryas baboon, Dr. Kummer introduces the reader to the daily life of a particular primate society. From this sample case, he proceeds to a more general characterization of primate societies, using as examples the great apes and monkeys of Africa, Asia, and South America and particularly the widely studied terrestrial monkey species. The particularities of primate communication, social structure, and economy are described and special attention is devoted to the primate counterparts of kinship and age groups-behavioral differences based on age and sex, and mating and grouping systems. This is followed by a chapter dealing with the ecological functions of the major parameters of primate social life, such as group size and the coordination of activities within it-dominance, leadership systems, and spatial arrangements. The second part of the book is concerned with the origins of behavioral traits of primates, discussed from phylogenetic, ecological, and cultural points of view, again using data-based examples. Dr. Kummer explains why some traits have not evolved that would have been ada
Author: Kummer, Hans
Publisher: Routledge
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Primate Societies: Group Techniques of Ecological Adaptation
Pages: 00160 (Encrypted EPUB) / 00160 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2017-07-05
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780202309040
Lib Category: Social behavior in animals
Lib Category: Primates - Behavior
Category: Science : Life Sciences - Zoology - Primatology
In this book, Hans Kummer, one of the world's leading primate ethologists, examines the patterns of social interaction among primates. He examines this social behavior from the fundamentally biological viewpoint of evolutionary adaptation as part of the survival mechanisms for the species. Recognizing that all activity is constituted in part of genetic programming and in part of adaptive behavior, he explores the borderline area between the genetic and the "cultural." By use of astute observation and clever experimentation he shows that many aspects of social behavior are inherited, and differentially inherited among various primate groups. These data also show, however, that the individuals and troops learn much in primate social life and that these forms are responsive to particular ecological situations. Drawing heavily on knowledge gleaned from his own well-known studies of the Hamadryas baboon, Dr. Kummer introduces the reader to the daily life of a particular primate society. From this sample case, he proceeds to a more general characterization of primate societies, using as examples the great apes and monkeys of Africa, Asia, and South America and particularly the widely studied terrestrial monkey species. The particularities of primate communication, social structure, and economy are described and special attention is devoted to the primate counterparts of kinship and age groups-behavioral differences based on age and sex, and mating and grouping systems. This is followed by a chapter dealing with the ecological functions of the major parameters of primate social life, such as group size and the coordination of activities within it-dominance, leadership systems, and spatial arrangements. The second part of the book is concerned with the origins of behavioral traits of primates, discussed from phylogenetic, ecological, and cultural points of view, again using data-based examples. Dr. Kummer explains why some traits have not evolved that would have been ada
Author: Kummer, Hans
Publisher: Routledge
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Primate Societies: Group Techniques of Ecological Adaptation
Pages: 00160 (Encrypted EPUB) / 00160 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2017-07-05
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780202309040
Lib Category: Social behavior in animals
Lib Category: Primates - Behavior
Category: Science : Life Sciences - Zoology - Primatology
