Recent data suggest that the human body is not such a neatly self-sufficient island after all. It
is more like a super-complex ecosystem containing trillions of bacteria and other …

Male mammals show a diverse array of mating bonds, including obligate monogamy,
unimale and group polygyny and promiscuity. These are associated with a wide variety of …

Two general kinds of theory (one ecological and one social) have been advanced to explain
the fact that primates have larger brains and greater congnitive abilities than other animals …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 PRIHATE VISIONS Page 3 PRIMATE VISIONS Gender, Race, and
Nature in the World of Modern Science DONNA HARAWAY ROUTLEDGE New York London …

The fact that most female primates (and many other mammals) live in groups is paradoxical,
given that the presence of others presumably increases competition for foods and may, for …

Sex‐biased dispersal is an almost ubiquitous feature of mammalian life history, but the
evolutionary causes behind these patterns still require much clarification. A quarter of a …

From the snub-nosed monkeys of China to the mountain gorillas of central Africa, our closest
nonhuman relatives are in critical danger worldwide. A recent report, for example, warns that …

This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …

Although touch is one of the most neglected modalities of communication, several lines of
research bear on the important communicative functions served by the modality. The authors …

Publisher's description: Why do males of some species live with a single mate when they are
capable of fertilizing more than one female's eggs? Why do some females pair only with one …