Marmosets: a neuroscientific model of human social behavior

CT Miller, WA Freiwald, DA Leopold, JF Mitchell… - Neuron, 2016‏ - cell.com
The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) has garnered interest recently as a powerful
model for the future of neuroscience research. Much of this excitement has centered on the …

The adaptive value of sociality in mammalian groups

JB Silk - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society …, 2007‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
According to behavioural ecology theory, sociality evolves when the net benefits of close
association with conspecifics exceed the costs. The nature and relative magnitude of the …

Linking sociality to fitness in primates: a call for mechanisms

J Ostner, O Schülke - Advances in the Study of Behavior, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Within-group variation in sociality has been linked to correlates of fitness across vertebrates.
Individuals that form strong social bonds with a few partners, or are well integrated into a …

Social affiliation matters: both same-sex and opposite-sex relationships predict survival in wild female baboons

EA Archie, J Tung, M Clark… - Proceedings of the …, 2014‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Social integration and support can have profound effects on human survival. The extent of
this phenomenon in non-human animals is largely unknown, but such knowledge is …

The benefits of social capital: close social bonds among female baboons enhance offspring survival

JB Silk, JC Beehner, TJ Bergman… - … of the Royal …, 2009‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Sociality has evolved in many animal taxa, but primates are unusual because they establish
highly differentiated bonds with other group members. Such bonds are particularly …

Evolution of primate social systems

PM Kappeler, CP van Schaik - International journal of primatology, 2002‏ - Springer
We review evolutionary processes and mechanisms that gave rise to the diversity of primate
social systems. We define social organization, social structure and mating system as distinct …

The raw and the stolen: cooking and the ecology of human origins

RW Wrangham, JH Jones, G Laden… - Current …, 1999‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
Cooking is a human universal that must have had widespread effects on the nutrition,
ecology, and social relationships of the species that invented it. The location and timing of its …

Social components of fitness in primate groups

JB Silk - Science, 2007‏ - science.org
There is much interest in the evolutionary forces that favored the evolution of large brains in
the primate order. The social brain hypothesis posits that selection has favored larger brains …

[كتاب][B] Anatomy of love: A natural history of mating, marriage, and why we stray (completely revised and updated with a new introduction)

H Fisher - 2016‏ - books.google.com
A contemporary classic about love now completely revised and updated. From love at first
sight and infidelity to hook-up culture and" slow love," Dr. Helen Fisher, the biological …

[كتاب][B] Primate behavioral ecology

KB Strier - 2016‏ - taylorfrancis.com
This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …