For the past two centuries, non‐human primates have been reported to inspect, protect,
retrieve, carry or drag the dead bodies of their conspecifics and, for nearly the same amount …

Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young
differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of …

This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …

The study of chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, started by Jane Goodall in
1960, provided pioneering accounts of chimpanzee behavior and ecology. With funding …

This book offers a synthesis of social science and evolutionary approaches to the study of
intergenerational relations, using biological, psychological and sociological factors to …

The mother-offspring relationship is paramount in most mammals and infant survival often
depends on maternal investment. In species with prolonged periods of development or co …

Aggression is generally more severe between males than between females because males
gain greater payoffs from escalated aggression. Males that successfully defeat rivals may …

Multidisciplinary perspectives on the cultural and evolutionary foundations of children's
attachment relationships and on the consequences for education, counseling, and policy. It …

During a population decline or disease outbreak, the true risk of specific diseases to a wild
population is often difficult to determine because of a lack of baseline disease information …

The biological embedding model (BEM) suggests that fitness costs of maternal loss arise
when early-life experience embeds long-term alterations to hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal …