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SEASONALITY IN PRIMATES: STUDIES OF LIVING AND EXTINCT HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN PRIMATES

Edited by Diane K. Brockman and Carel P. van Schaik

Cambridge University Press



FROM THE PUBLISHER



The emergence of the genus Homo is widely linked to the colonization of "new" highly seasonal savannah habitats. However, until now, our understanding of the possible impact of seasonality on this shift has been limited because we have little general knowledge of how seasonality affects the lives of primates. This book documents the extent of seasonality in food abundance in tropical woody vegetation and then presents a systematic analysis of seasonality's impact in food supply on the behavioral ecology of non-human primates.  Syntheses in this book then produce for the first time broad generalizations concerning the impact of seasonality on behavioral ecology and reproduction in both human and non-human primates, and apply these insights to primate and human evolution.  Written for graduate students and researchers in biological anthropology and behavioral ecology, this is an absorbing account of how seasonality may have affected an important episode in our own evolution.



ABOUT THE EDITORS



Diane K. Brockman is Assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.  Her research concerns environmental mechanisms influencing reproduction, development, and life history in human and non- human primates.  Current studies involve the hormonal basis of seasonal reproduction, female mate competition, male life history patterns and aging, and the metabolic costs of reproduction in females.



Carel P. van Schaik is now Professor of Biological Anthropology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.  He studies behavioral ecology and the conservation of tropical forests.  His previous books include the edited works Infanticide by Males and Its Implications (with Charles Janson; 2000; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) and Sexual Selection in Primates (with Peter Kappeler; 2004; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)



CONTENTS



List of contributors, ix

Preface, xiii

Part I Introduction, 1

1 Seasonality in primate ecology, reproduction, and life history: an overview, 3

CAREL P. VAN SCHAIK & DIANE K. BROCKMAN

Part II Seasonal habitats, 21

2 Tropical climates and phenology: a primate perspective, 23

CAREL P. VAN SCHAIK & KRISTINA R. PFANNES

Part III Seasonality and behavioral ecology, 55

3 The influence of seasonality on primate diet and ranging, 57

CLAIRE A. HEMINGWAY & NORA BYNUM

4 Seasonality in predation risk: varying activity periods in lemurs and other primates, 105

MICHELE A. RASMUSSEN

5 Physiological adaptations to seasonality in nocturnal primates, 129

JUTTA SCHMID & PETER M. KAPPELER

6 Seasonality and long-term change in a savanna environment, 157

SUSAN C. ALBERTS, JULIE A. HOLLISTER-SMITH, RAPHAEL S. MUTUTUA, SERAH N. SAYIALEL, PHILIP M. MURUTHI, J. KINYUA WARUTERE & JEANNE ALTMANN

7 Day length seasonality and the thermal environment, 197

RUSSELL HILL

8 Seasonality in hunting by non-human primates, 215

JOHN C. MITANI & DAVID P. WATTS

9 Human hunting seasonality, 243

REBECCA BUEGE BIRD & DOUGLAS W. BIRD

Part IV Seasonality, reproduction, and social organization, 267

10 Seasonality and reproductive function, 269

DIANE K. BROCKMAN & CAREL P. VAN SCHAIK

11 Seasonality of primate births in relation to climate, 307

CHARLES JANSON & JENNIFER VERDOLIN

12 Energetic responses to food availability in the great apes: implications for hominin evolution, 351

CHERYL D. KNOTT

13 Human birth seasonality, 379

PETER T. ELLISON, CLAUDIA R. VALEGGIA & DIANA S. SHERRY

14 Seasonality, social organization, and sexual dimorphism in primates, 401

J. MICHAEL PLAVCAN, CAREL P. VAN SCHAIK & W. SCOTT MCGRAW

Part V Seasonality and community ecology, 443

I5 Seasonality and primate communities, 445

CAREL P. VAN SCHAIK, RICHARD MADDEN & JORG U. GANZHORN

16 Primate diversity and environmental seasonality in historical perspective, 465

NINA G. JABLONSKI

Part VI Seasonality and human evolution, 487

17 Tropical and temperate seasonal influences on human evolution, 489

KAYE E. REED & JENNIFER L. FISH

18 Orbital controls on seasonality, 519

JOHN D. KINGSTON

19 What do studies of seasonality in primates tell us about human evolution?, 543

DIANE K. BROCKMAN

Index, 571



WHERE TO ORDER



ISBN Number 0-521-82069-3 ($120.00)



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Posted Date: January 10, 2006