Recent work has documented a wide range of important psychological differences across
societies. Multiple explanations have been offered for why such differences exist, including …

Because primates display such remarkable diversity, they are an ideal taxon within which to
examine the evolutionary significance of group living and the ecological factors responsible …

We review evolutionary processes and mechanisms that gave rise to the diversity of primate
social systems. We define social organization, social structure and mating system as distinct …

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

Via the current model on the evolutionary ecology of female social relationships, Sterck et
al.(1997) argue that ecological conditions determine how competition over food resources …

Physical anthropologists use the term “fallback foods” to denote resources of relatively poor
nutritional quality that become particularly important dietary components during periods …

Several models have been proposed to explain the variation that exists in female social
relationships among diurnal primate species. While there are similarities among them …

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus) are the only two species of the
genus Pan, and are humans' nearest relatives. This book is an extensive review of the most …

The structure of dominance relationships among individuals in a population is known to
influence their fitness, access to resources, risk of predation, and even energy budgets …

Attempts to explain differences in the size and structure of primate groups have argued that
they are a consequence of variation in the intensity of feeding competition caused by …