{"product_id":"primate-societies-group-techniques-of-ecological-adaptation-9780202309040","title":"Primate Societies: Group Techniques of Ecological Adaptation","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this book  Hans Kummer  one of the worlds leading primate ethologists  examines the patterns of social interaction among primates. He examines this social behavior from the fundamentally biological viewpoint of evolutionary adaptation as part of the survival mechanisms for the species. Recognizing that all activity is constituted in part of genetic programming and in part of adaptive behavior  he explores the borderline area between the genetic and the \"cultural.\" By use of astute observation and clever experimentation he shows that many aspects of social behavior are inherited  and differentially inherited among various primate groups. These data also show  however  that the individuals and troops learn much in primate social life and that these forms are responsive to particular ecological situations. Drawing heavily on knowledge gleaned from his own well-known studies of the Hamadryas baboon  Dr. Kummer introduces the reader to the daily life of a particular primate society. From this sample case  he proceeds to a more general characterization of primate societies  using as examples the great apes and monkeys of Africa  Asia  and South America and particularly the widely studied terrestrial monkey species. The particularities of primate communication  social structure  and economy are described and special attention is devoted to the primate counterparts of kinship and age groups-behavioral differences based on age and sex  and mating and grouping systems. This is followed by a chapter dealing with the ecological functions of the major parameters of primate social life  such as group size and the coordination of activities within it-dominance  leadership systems  and spatial arrangements. The second part of the book is concerned with the origins of behavioral traits of primates  discussed from phylogenetic  ecological  and cultural points of view  again using data-based examples. Dr. Kummer explains why some traits have not evolved that would have been adaptive  and traces the rise of several secondary functions in their place. The final section of- the book confronts man with his fellow primates  emphasizing the probable limits imposed upon human culture by the existing phylogenetic heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789787324469,"sku":"ByrdShop_0202309045","price":60.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780202309040.jpg?v=1784698584","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/primate-societies-group-techniques-of-ecological-adaptation-9780202309040","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}