Seasonality in Primates

Studies of Living and Extinct Human and Non-Human Primates

By: Diane K. Brockman (Editor), Carel P. Van Schaik (Editor)

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Paperback | 16 August 2012

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The emergence of the genus Homo is widely linked to the colonization of 'new' highly seasonal savannah habitats. However, until recently, 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 2005 book documents the extent of seasonality in food abundance in tropical woody vegetation, and then presents systematic analyses of the impact of seasonality in food supply on the behavioural ecology of non-human primates. Syntheses in this volume then produce broad generalizations concerning the impact of seasonality on behavioural 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 behavioural ecology, this is an absorbing account of how seasonality may have affected an important episode in our own evolution.

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Review of the hardback: 'In this well structured and detailed book Brockman and Schaik discuss the major role that seasonality plays in influencing the ecology and behaviour of primate species ... I would highly recommend this book to anyone with an existing interest in primatology or evolutionary anthropology ... All in all it offers an interesting and thought-provoking read.' Hannah E. Parathian, University of Oxford

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Preface
Introduction
Seasonality in primate ecology, reproduction, and life history: an overview
Seasonal Habitats
Tropical climates and phenology: a primate perspective
Seasonality and Behavioural Ecology
The influence of seasonality on primate diet and ranging
Seasonality in predation risk: varying activity periods in lemurs and other primates
Physiological adaptations to seasonality in nocturnal primates
Seasonality and long-term change in a savannah environment
Day length seasonality and the thermal environment
Seasonality in hunting by nonhuman primates
Human hunting seasonality
Seasonality, Reproduction, and Social Organisation
Seasonality and reproductive function
Seasonality of primate births in relation to climate
Energetic responses to food availability in the great apes: implications for hominin evolution
Human birth seasonality
Seasonality, social organisation, and sexual dimorphism in primates
Seasonality and Community Ecology
Seasonality and primate communities
Primate diversity and environmental seasonality in historical perspective
Seasonality and Human Evolution
Tropical and temperate seasonal influences on human evolution
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