This book is divided into five parts, each providing background and evidence from different perspetives and disciplines, that cooperation and/or altruistic behavior are pivotal, and central components to nonhuman primate and human social existence. Each part begins with a short …
This volume examines the evolution and nature of cooperation and altruism in social-living animals, focusing especially on non-human primates and humans.
This edition has been completely rewritten, resulting in a more compact text. For the first time there are four-colour photographs and illustrations throughout.
The human condition
by Bednarik, Robert G., Falk, Dean
fromDevelopments in primatology (Print)
Intended for graduate and upper level undergraduate courses in behavioural ecology where students are already familiar with the basic ideas, this book continues to define the subject. A completely new set of contributions has been brought together once more to take account of th…
Intended for students who are already familiar with the basic ideas of the subject, this text takes account of the many new developments, integrating an exposition of the theory with a critical discussion of how predictions have been tested.