Kinship and Behavior in Primates [Hardcover]

This book presents a series of review chapters on the various aspects of primate kinship and behavior, as a fundamental reference for students and professionals interested in primate behavior, ecology and evolution. The relatively new molecular data allow one to assess directly degrees of genetic relatedness and kinship relations between individuals, and a considerable body of data on intergroup variation, based on experimental studies in both free-ranging and captive groups has accumulated, allowing a rather full and satisfying reconsideration of this whole broad area of research. The book should be of considerable interest to students of social evolution and behavioral ecology.

Contributors
1. Introduction: The Kinship Black Box,Bernard Chapais and Carol M. Berman
Part I. Who Are Kin? Methodological Advances in Determining Kin Relationships
2. Determination of Genealogical Relationships from Genetic Data: A review of Methods and Applications,Philip A. Morin and Tony L. Goldberg
3. Noninvasive Genotyping and Field Studies of Free-Ranging Nonhuman Primates,David S. Woodruff
Part II. Kin Compositions: Ecological Determinants, Population Genetics, and Demography
4. Is There No Place Like Home? Ecological Bases of Female Dispersal and Philopatry and Their Consequences for the Formation of Kin Groups,Lynne A. Isbell
5. Dispersal and the Population Genetics of Primate Species,Guy A. Hoelzer, Juan Carlos Morales, and Don J. Melnick
6. The Effects of Demographic Variation on Kinship Structure and Behavior in Cercopithecines,David A. Hill
Part III. Diversity of Effects of Kinship on Behavior
7. Matrilineal Kinship and Primate Behavior,Ellen Kapsalis
8. Patrilineal Kinship and Primate Behavior,Karen B. Strier
9. Kinship and Behavior Among Nongregarious Nocturnal Prosimians: What Do We Really Know?,Leanne Tlˆ