Juvenile Primates Life History, Development, and Behavior

by Pereira, Michael E.; Fairbanks, Lynn A.

• ISBN13: 9780195072068
• ISBN10: 0195072065
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-07-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

What is a juvenile? Why do primates take so long to grow up? What forces shape the behavior of juvenile primates, and how do experiences during these early years influence life as an adult? Juvenile Primates is the first book to focus specifically on the primate juvenile period. Using alife-history approach, contributors to this volume consider the paradoxes inherent in the unusually long juvenile process exhibited by primates as they present new data on the challenges faced by juveniles across a broad range of species. Individual chapters focus on prosimians, Old and New Worldmonkeys, apes, and humans, and topics include the development of sex differences, meeting needs for safety, establishing and maintaining social relationships, managing social conflict, and developing skills for adult life. The book concludes with a look at children and how cross-cultural differncesin physical and behavioral development can be understood in terms of evolutionary theory. The result is a landmark in primate studies, one that shows how understanding juvenile development yields insight into entire life histories. The book will be of interest to anthropologists, biologists,primatologists, and psychologists.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

What are Juvenile Primates All About?

Why Be Juvenile?

Juvenility in Animals

Evolution of the Juvenile Period in Mammals

On the Evolution of Juvenile Lifestyles in Mammals

Ecological Risk Aversion in JuvenilePrimates: Slow and Steady Wins the Race

Growing into Different Worlds

Spatial Position and Behavioral Sex Differencesin Juvenile Long-tailed Macaques

Juvenile Male Emigration from Natal One-MaleTroops in Hanuman Langurs

Consequences of Sex Differences in Dispersal forJuvenile Red Howler Monkeys

Juveniles in Nongregarious Primates

Growing Up in a Patrifocal Society: Sex Differences in theSpatial Relations of Immature Muriquis

Behavior of Juvenile and Adolescent Great Apes

Developing Skills and Relationships for Later Use

Diet and Social Organization of a Free-Ranging Spider MonkeyPopulation: The Development of Species-Typical Behavior in the Absence of Adults

Primate Juveniles and Primate Play

Stability of Social Relationships in FemaleWedge-Capped Capuchin Monkeys

Juvenile Vervet Monkeys: Establishing Relationships andPracticing Skills for the Future

Interactions between Juveniles and Adult Malesin Vervets: Implications for Adult Male Turnover

Managing Social Conflict and the Development of Dominance Relationships

Early Agonistic Experience and the Onset ofMatrilineal Rank Acquisition in Japanese Macaques

Codevelopment of Dominance Relations and Affiliative Bondsin Rhesus Monkeys

Patterns of Reconciliation among JuvenileLong-tailed Macaques

Agonistic Interaction, Dominance Relations, and OntogeneticTrajectories in Ring-tailed Lemurs

Comparative Socioecology of Childhood

The Lives of Hunter-Gatherer Children: Effects of ParentalBehavior and Parental Reproductive Strategy

Behavioral Sex Differences in Children of Diverse Cultures:The Case of Nurturance to Infants

Biocultural Interactions in Human Development

Epilogue: Juvenile Primates: Dimensions for Further Research

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