E Messer - Annual review of anthropology, 1984 - JSTOR
Whether viewed from archaeological-historical, sociocultural, or biomedical perspectives, food is a basic concern for all human societies. Reflecting that basic concern …
The chimpanzee of all other living species is our closest relation, with whom we last shared a common ancestor about five million years ago. These African apes make and use a rich …
Those who have been privileged to watch baboons long enough to know them as individuals and who have learned to interpret some of their more subtle interactions will …
In order to identify the conditions that favored the flourishing of primate tool use into hominid technology, we examine inter-and intraspecific variation in manufacture and use of tools in …
Male aggression against females in primates, including humans, often functions to control female sexuality to the male's reproductive advantage. A comparative, evolutionary …
Primates stand at a turning point in the course of evolution. Primates are to the biologist what viruses are to the biochemist. They can be analyzed and partly understood according to the …
Fission-fusion systems can have the group or the individual as their primary unit. In group- based fission-fusion systems, predation risk reduction is the major benefit to grouping, in the …
We hypothesise that foraging group size (FGS) and population group size (PGS) in primates and carnivores are related to quantifiable variables indexing the intensity of exploitative …
DM Doran - Journal of human evolution, 1997 - Elsevier
The African apes are a group of closely related taxa that differ considerably in body size. In spite of the large body size difference, the African apes are similar in many aspects of their …