The Missing Lemur Link: An Ancestral Step in the Evolution of Human Behaviour: 74 (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Series Number 74)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 6/9/2016
EAN 9781107016088, ISBN10: 1107016088
Hardcover, 300 pages, 25.4 x 18 x 2 cm
Language: English
Lemurs share a common distant ancestor with humans. Following their own evolutionary pathway, lemurs provide the ideal model to shed light on the behavioural traits of primates including conflict management, communication strategies and society building and how these aspects of social living relate to those found in the anthropoid primates. Adopting a comparative approach throughout, lemur behaviour is cross-examined with that of monkeys, apes and humans. This book reviews and expands upon the newest fields of research in lemur behavioural biology, including recent analytical approaches that have so far been limited to studies of haplorrhine primates. Different methodological approaches are harmonised in this volume to break conceptual walls between both primate taxa and different disciplines. Through a focus on the methodologies behind lemur behaviour and social interactions, future primate researchers will be encouraged to produce directly comparable results.
An opening message Jane Goodall
Foreword Alison Jolly and Ian Tatterall
Preface
Part I. Communication
From Sociality to Society
1. Who are you? How lemurs recognize each other in a small centred world
2. What do you mean? Multimodal communication for a better signal transmission
3. Vertical living
sexual selection strategies and upright locomotion
Part II. How Conflicts Shape Societies
4. Bossing around the forest
power asymmetry and hierarchy
5. Something to make peace for
conflict management and resolution
6. Anxiety...from scratch
emotional response to tense situations
Part III. Why Lemurs Keep in Touch
7. Playing lemurs
why primates have been playing for a long time
8. Sex is not on discount
mating market and lemurs
9. Understanding lemurs
future directions in lemur cognition
Afterword Michael Huffman
Index.