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MACAQUE SOCIETIES: A MODEL FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

Edited By: Bernard Thierry, Mewa Singh, and Werner Kaumanns

(Description taken from the back cover)
Animal and human societies are multifaceted.  In order to understand how
they have evolved, it is necessary to investigate each of the constituent
facets including individual abilities and personalities, life-history
traits, mating systems, demographic dynamics, gene flows, social
relationships, ecology, and phylogeny.  By exploring the nature and
evolution of macaque social organizations, this book develops out knowledge
of the rise of societies and their transformation during the course of
evolution.  Macaques are the most comprehensively studied of all monkey
groups, and the 20 known species feature a broad diversity in their social
relationships making them a particularly good group for exploring the
evolution of societies.  This book will be of primary interest to those
studying animal behavior and primatology, but will also be useful to those
involved in the study of human societies.

ABOUT THE EDITORS
(Description taken from the back cover)

Bernard Thierry is a Research Director at the Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique in Strasbourg, France.  He had studied the social
behavior of non-human primates for the past 25 years, and is particularly
interested in how internal constraints channel the evolutionary changes of
social organizations.

Mewa Singh is Professor of Psychology at the University of Mysore,
India.  His main research focus is on the evolution of sociality, and he is
especially interested in bridging the gap between biology and behavioral
biology.

Werner Kaumanns is Curator of Primates and Head of the Primatology Working
Group at Cologne Zoo, Germany.  His special interest is also in
conservation biology, and he had been involved in research in lion-tailed
macaques with special reference to the effects of habitat fragmentation.

CONTENTS

List of contributors
Page x

Acknowledgments
Page xiii
INTRODUCTION

1 Why macaque societies?
Bernard Thierry, Mewa Singh, and Werner Kaumanns
Page 3


Part I Individual attributes            Page 11

2 Personality factors between and within species
John P. Capitanio
Page 13

Box 2 Social intelligence
Josep Call
Page 33

3 The role of emotions in social relationships
Filippo Aureli and Gabriele Schino
Page 38

Box 3 Power and communication
Signe Preuschoft
Page 56

4 Reproductive life history
Fred Bercovitch and Nancy Harvey
Page 61

Box 4 Life-history traits: ecological adaptations or phylogenetic relics?
Mewa Singh and Anindya Sinha
Page 80



Part II Demography and reproductive systems     Page 85

5 Demography: a window to social evolution
Wolfgang Dittus
Page 87

Box 5 Patterns of group fission
Kyoko Okamoto
Page 112

6 Gene flow, dispersal patterns, and social organization
Hélene Gachot-Neveu and Nelly Ménard
Page117

Box 6 Dominance and paternity
Andreas Paul
Page131

7 Mating
systems
Joseph Soltis
Page 135

Box 7 Homosexual behavior
Paul L Vasey
Page 151


Part III Social relationships and networks              Page 155

8 Dominance style, social power, and conflict management:
a conceptual framework
Jessica C. Flack and Frans B. M. de Waal
Page 157

Box 8 Social space and degrees of freedom
Marina Butovskaya
Page 182

9 How kinship generates dominance structures:
 a comparative perspective
Bernard Chapais
Page 186

Box 9 Inter-group
relationships
Matthew A. Cooper
Page 204

10 Intergenerational transmission of behavior
Christophe Chauvin and Carol M. Berman
Page 209

Box 10 Maternal behavior, infant handling, and socialization
Dario Maestripieri
Page 231

Part IV External and internal constraints

Page 235

11 Do ecological factors explain variation in social organization?
Nelly Ménard
Page 237

Box 11 Intraspecific variation: implications for
interspecific comparisons
David A. Hill
Page 262

12 Social
epigenesis
Bernard Thierry
Page 267

Box 12 The role of contingency in evolution
Christophe Abegg
Page 290

The use of artificial-life models for the study of social
organization
Charlotte K. Hemelrijk
Page 295

Box 13 Proximate behaviors and natural selection
William A. Mason
Page 313

Part V An outside viewpoint

Page 319

14 An anthropologist among macaques
 Maurice Godelier
Page 321

Box 14 Do macaque species have a future?
Yasuyuki Muroyama and Ardith A. Eudey
Page 328

15 Toward integrating the multiple dimensions of
societies
Bernard Thierry, Mewa Singh, and Werner Kaumanns
Page 335

References

Page 341

Index

Page 414

The color plates are situated between pages 5 and 6.

WHERE TO ORDER

Cambridge University Press
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New York NY 10011-4211

ISBN 0-521-81847-8 Hardcover $120.00

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Posted Date: 11/1/04