Primate Life Histories and Socioecology

Foreword
Robert D. Martin

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Primate Life Histories and Socioecology
Peter M. Kappeler, Michael E. Pereira, and Carel P. van Schaik

Part One - Life History and Socioecology

2. Primate Life Histories and Phylogeny
Andy Purvis, Andrea J. Webster, Paul-Michael Agapow, Kate E. Jones, and Nick J. B. Isaac

3. Socioecological Correlates of Phenotypic Plasticity of Primate Life Histories
Phyllis C. Lee and Peter M. Kappeler

4. Matrix Models for Primate Life History Analysis
Susan C. Alberts and Jeanne Altmann

5. Puzzles, Predation, and Primates: Using Life History to Understand Selection Pressures
Charles H. Janson

6. Adaptations to Seasonality: Some Primate and Nonprimate Examples
Jörg U. Ganzhorn, Susanne Klaus, Sylvia Ortmann, and Jutta Schmid

Part Two - Development

7. Modes of Primate Development
Michael E. Pereira and Steven R. Leigh

8. Dental Development and Primate Life Histories
Laurie R. Godfrey, Karen E. Samonds, William L. Jungers, and Michael R. Sutherland

9. Human Life Histories: Primate Trade-offs, Grandmothering Socioecology, and the Fossil Record
Kristen Hawkes, J. F. O’Connell, and Nicholas G. Blurton Jones

Part Three - Evolution of Primate Brains

10. Primate Brains and Life Histories: Renewing the Connection
Robert O. Deaner, Robert A. Barton, and Carel P. van Schaik

11. Life History, Infant Care Strategies, and Brain Size in Primates
Caroline Ross

12 Why Are Apes So Smart?
Robin I. M. Dunbar

Part Four - Where Do We Go From Here?

13. Primate Life Histories and Future Research
Stephen C. Stearns, Michael E. Pereira, and Peter M. Kappeler

Appendix: A Primate Life History Database
Contributors
References
Index