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Juvenile Primates

Life History, Development and Behavior, with a new Foreword

The first and still the only book focused exclusively on juvenile primates, this collection presents original research covering all the major divisions of primates, from prosimians to humans. Contributors explore the evolutionary history of the juvenile stage in primates, differences in behavior between juvenile males and females, how juvenile behaviors act both to prepare juveniles for adulthood and to help them survive the juvenile stage, how juveniles learn about and participate in social conflict and dominance relationships, and the similarities and differences between development of juvenile human and nonhuman primates. This edition includes a new foreword and bibliography prepared by the editors.

Contributors:
Filippo Aureli, Bernard Chapais, Marina Cords, Carolyn M. Crockett, Frans B. M. de Waal, Carolyn Pope Edwards, Robert Fagen, Carole Gauthier, Paul H. Harvey, Charlotte K. Hemelrijk, Loek A. M. Herremans, Julia A. Horrocks, Wayne Hunte, Charles H. Janson, Nicholas Blurton Jones, Katharine Milton, Leanne T. Nash, Timothy G. O’Brien, Mark D. Pagel, Theresa R. Pope, Anne E. Pusey, Lal Singh Rajpurohit, John G. Robinson, Thelma Rowell, Daniel I. Rubenstein, Volker Sommer, Elisabeth H. M. Sterck, Karen B. Strier, Carel P. van Schaik, Maria A. van Noordwijk, David P. Watts, and Carol M. Worthman.

461 pages | 20 halftones, 83 line drawings, 43 tables | 6 x 9 | © 2003

Anthropology: Physical Anthropology

Biological Sciences: Behavioral Biology, Evolutionary Biology

Table of Contents

Foreword 2002: Family, Friends, and the Evolution of Childhood
Foreword
Preface
Contributors

1 What are Juvenile Primates All About?

I WHY BE JUVENILE?

2 Juvenility in Animals

3 Evolution of the Juvenile Period in Mammals

4 On the Evolution of Juvenile Life-Styles in Mammals

5 Ecological Risk Aversion in Juvenile Primates: Slow and Steady Wins the
Race

II GROWING INTO DIFFERENT WORLDS

6 Spatial Position and Behavioral Sex Differences in Juvenile Long-Tailed
Macaques

7 Juvenile Male Emigration from Natal One-Male Troops in Hanuman Langurs

8 Consequences of Sex Differences in Dispersal for Juvenile Red howler
Monkeys

9 Juveniles in Nongregarious Primates

10 Growing Up in a Patriarchal Society:
Sex Differences in the Spatial Relations of Immature Muriquis

11 Behavior of Juvenile and Adolescent Great Apes

III DEVELOPING SKILLS AND RELATIONSHIPS FOR LATER USE

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

13 Primate Juveniles and
Primate Play

14 Stability of Social Relationships in
Female Wedge-Capped Capuchin
Monkeys

15 Juvenile Vervet Monkeys: Establishing
Relationships and Practicing Skills
for the Future

16 Interactions Between Juveniles and Adult
Makes in Vervets: Implications for Adult
Male Turnover

IV MANAGING SOCIAL CONFLICT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF DOMINANCE RELATIONSHIPS

17 Early Agnostic Experience and the Onset of Matrilineal Rank Acquisition in
Japanese Maracques

18 Codevelopment of Dominance Relations and Affiliative Bonds in Rhesus
Monkeys

19 Patterns of Reconciliation Among Juvenile Long-Tailed Macaques

20 Agnostic Interaction, Dominance Relation, and Ontogenetic Trajectories in
Ringtailed Lemurs

V COMPARATIVE SOCIOECOLOGY OF CHILDHOOD

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

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

23 Biocultural Interactions in Human Development

24 Juvenile Primates: Dimensions for Future Research

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