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How Reliance on Allomaternal Care Shapes Primate Development with Special Reference to the Genus Homo
According to the Cooperative Breeding Hypothesis, slow-maturing apes with the life history attributes of those in the line leading to the genus Homo...
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Making a Tiger’s Day: Free-Operant Assessment and Environmental Enrichment to Improve the Daily Lives of Captive Bengal Tigers (Panthera tigris tigris)
There are more captive tigers in the United States than there are wild tigers in the entire world. Many animals under human care engage in problem...
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Fathers and Very Young Children: A Developmental Systems Perspective
We set the stage for an in-depth examination of fathers’ involvement in child development from the prenatal years to preschool, a period of human...
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Talking Heads
In this chapter, comparative and developmental evidence in mammals for the origin of human speech is discussed. Some mammals display learned,...
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Canid Mating Systems, Social Behavior, Parental Care and Ontogeny: Are they Flexible?
Benson Ginsburg’s early studies of canid socialization and wolf social and reproductive behavior were focused, in part, on the degree to which there...
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Socially biased learning in monkeys
We review socially biased learning about food and problem solving in monkeys, relying especially on studies with tufted capuchin monkeys ( Cebus apella ...
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Differences in feeding ecology predict differences in performance between golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia) and Wied’s marmosets (Callithrix kuhli) on spatial and visual memory tasks
Golden lion tamarins ( Leontopithecus rosalia ) and Wied’s marmosets ( Callithrix kuhli ) exhibited adaptive differences in performance on several...
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The Functions of Primate Paternalism: A Cross-Species Review
Intrauterine gestation and the physiological adaptations of females that have allowed them to nourish neonates characterize the class Mammalia, and...
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Dominance in Nonhuman Primates
As has been true for the material on power and dominance in the literature on nonverbal behavior in humans (Chapter 2), there also has been...
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Antioxidants and Longevity of Mammalian Species
Humans have the longest maximum lifespan potential of any mammalian species and also appear to consume more energy over this lifespan on a per-weight...
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The Infant Cry of Primates
The evolution of the infant cry is essentially a reflection of the evolution of mammals. The origin of suckling behavior and the delivery of milk...
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Paternal Behavior in Primates
In the last several years the Nature and origins of paternal care have become increasingly important to many people in Western societies. Our own...