Behavioral Flexibility in Primates: Causes and Consequences

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Springer Science & Business Media, Mar 3, 2005 - Science - 184 pages

Numerous figures, illustrations, and tables; integration of new literature and concepts into field of primatology; emphasis upon both behavioral and cognitive mechanisms.

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Contents

When to Disperse as an Assay for Demonstrating
23
Conclusions
29
Categorical
47
Resolving Conflicts of Interest with Probabilistic Responses
55
Female Primates as EnergyMaximizers in Heterogeneous Regimes
61
Alloparental Behaviors as an Example of the Flexibility
70
Life History Tactics and the Evolution of Behavioral Flexibility
78
Signaling Theory and Patterns of BranchBreaking
87
Does Each Sex Favor Different Outcomes of MaleFemale
96
Sociosexual Organization and the Expression of Behavioral Flexibility
109
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Interpretations and Prospects
123
Glossary
139
References
145
Index
181
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About the author (2005)

Clara B. Jones, Ph.D. has studied spiders, fish, monkeys, and humans, including work in the field, in zoological gardens, and in the laboratory. Most of her research, beginning in 1973, has been conducted on the howling monkeys of Central America. Her publications primarily relate to sexual selection, reproductive competition, social organization, interindividual conflicts of interest, dispersal, and evolution in heterogeneous regimes. She has also contributed to the literature on primate conservation and population biology.

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