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Building Babies: Primate Development in Proximate and Ultimate Perspective

Building Babies: Primate Development in Proximate and Ultimate Perspective

Hardcover

Series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects, Book 37

BiologyBotany & HorticultureEvolution

ISBN10: 1461440599
ISBN13: 9781461440598
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 26 2012
Pages: 534
Weight: 1.94
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

The ontogeny of each individual contributes to the physical, physiological, cognitive, neurobiological, and behavioral capacity to manage the complex social relationships and diverse foraging tasks that characterize the primate order. For these reasons Building Babies explores the dynamic multigenerational processes of primate development. The book is organized thematically along the developmental trajectory: conception, pregnancy, lactation, the mother-infant dyad, broader social relationships, and transitions to independence. In this volume, the authors showcase the myriad approaches to understanding primate developmental trajectories from both proximate and ultimate perspectives. These collected chapters provide insights from experimental manipulations in captive settings to long-term observations of wild-living populations and consider levels of analysis from molecule to organism to social group to taxon. Strepsirrhines, New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, apes, and humans are all well-represented. Contributions by anthropologists, microbiologists, psychologists, population geneticists, and other primate experts provide Building Babies a uniquely diverse voice.

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