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Games Primates Play: An Undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of Human Relationships by Dario Maestripieri Publisher Comments Most humans don't realize that when they exchange emails with someone, anyone, they are actually exhibiting certain unspoken rules about dominance and hierarchy. The same rules regulate the exchange of grooming behavior in rhesus macaques or chimpanzees.... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are by Frans De Waal Publisher Comments From "one of the world's greatest experts on primate behavior" (Desmond Morris) comes a look at the most provocative aspects of human nature-power, sex, violence, kindness, and morality-through our closest cousins. For nearly twenty years, Frans De Waal... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Statistics for Anthropology by Lorena Madrigal Publisher Comments Anthropology as a discipline is rapidly becoming more quantitative, and anthropology students are now required to develop sophisticated statistical skills. This book provides students of anthropology with a clear, step-by-step guide to univariate... (read more) Your price: $50.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Gibbons of Khao Yai: Seasonal Variation in Behavior and Ecology (Primate Field Studies) by Thad Q. Bartlett Publisher Comments This series is a venue for the publication of PhD-level field studies of wild nonhuman primates in a format that is broadly accessible and more cohesive than the usual and sometimes artificial splicing of field study data into separately published peer... (read more) Your price: $34.25 New - Trade Paper
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Field and Laboratory Methods in Primatology: A Practical Guide by Joanna M. (edt) Setchell Publisher Comments Building on the success of the first edition and bringing together contributions from a range of experts in the field, the second edition of this guide to research on wild primates covers the latest advances in the field, including new information on... (read more) Your price: $115.00 New - Hardcover
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Macachiavellian Intelligence: How Rhesus Macaques and Humans Have Conquered the World by Dario Maestripieri Publisher Comments Judged by population size and distribution, homo sapiens are clearly the most successful primates. A close second, however, would be rhesus macaques, who have adapted to (and thrived in) such diverse environments as mountain forests, dry grasslands, and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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Primate Life Histories and Socioecology by Peter M. Kappeler Publisher Comments We know a great deal about roles the environment plays in shaping survival, reproductive success, and even social systems among primates. But how do primate life histories affect social systems and vice versa? Do baboons' patterns of growth, for example,... (read more) Your price: $44.50 New - Trade Paper
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Strategies of Sex and Survival Hamadryas Baboons (05 Edition) by Larissa Swedell Publisher Comments This book is an essential, up-to-date reference on the behavior, ecology, and reproduction of wild hamadryas baboons. This book rectifies the male-biased view of hamadryas baboon behavior that has persisted over the decades, suggesting that female... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price: $21.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Primates in Perspective (2ND 10 Edition) by Christina Campbell Publisher Comments Featuring forty-seven original essays by seventy leading researchers, Primates in Perspective, Second Edition, offers a comprehensive and contemporary overview of all major areas of primatology. Thoroughly revised and updated throughout, the second... (read more) List Price $84.95 Your price: $64.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Machiavellian Intelligence: Social Expertise and the Evolution of Intellect in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans (Oxford Science Publications) by Richard Byrne Publisher Comments This book presents an alternative to conventional ideas about the evolution of the human intellect. Instead of placing top priority on the role of tools, the pressure for their skillful use, and the related importance of interpersonal communication as a... (read more) Your price: $189.95 New - Trade Paper
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New World Primates: Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior by Warren G. Kinzey Publisher Comments This book, whose contributors are leading experts on various aspects of New World monkeys, explores the tremendous diversity to be found among neotropical primate species that have adapted to the highly varied Central and South American ecosystems. These... (read more) List Price $27.16 Your price: $24.10 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Behavioral Ecology of Callimicos and Tamarins in Northwestern Bolivia (07 Edition) by Leila M. Porter Publisher Comments Part of Prentice Hall's Primate Field Studies series. The Behavioral Ecology of Callimicos and Tamarins in Northwestern Bolivia offers readers a scholary and relevant study of these rainforest dwellers.... (read more) List Price $27.60 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Lemur Social Systems & Their Ecological Basis by Peter Kappeler Book News Annotation Summarizes the research on lemurs, often called the most primitive primates, over the past decade, emphasizing the only recently begun investigations into their behavioral ecology and evolutionary biology. Another species has even been identified... (read more) Your price: $264.95 New - Hardcover
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Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropolog #36: Human Senescence: Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspectives by Douglas E. Crews Publisher Comments Combining anthropological, gerontological and biocultural evidence, this study explores how humans came to grow old as slowly as they do, and what impacts this has had on their health and lives. It is only comparatively recent that humans have developed... (read more) Your price: $47.95 New - Trade Paper
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A Natural History of the Brown Mouse Lemur by Sylvia Atsalis Publisher Comments A Natural History of the Brown Mouse Lemur provides the most complete look at the behavior and ecology of mouse lemurs. There are very few books that address the biology of nocturnal primates. There are even fewer that delve with any detail... (read more) Your price: $38.25 New - Trade Paper 
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Primate Sexuality: Comparative Studies of the Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and Human Beings by Alan F. Dixson Publisher Comments Primate Sexuality is a uniquely comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about the sexual behavior of primates. Alan Dixson reviews and integrates both the evolutionary biology and the physiological basis of sexual behaviour across the whole spectrum of... (read more) Your price: $105.50 New - Mass Market
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Monkeys on the Edge by Michael Gumert Publisher Comments Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) have a wide geographical distribution and extensively overlap with human societies across southeast Asia, regularly utilizing the edges of secondary forest and inhabiting numerous anthropogenic environments... (read more) List Price $79.00 Your price: $76.04 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Infanticide Controversy: Primatology and the Art of Field Science by Amanda Rees Publisher Comments Infanticide in the natural world might be a relatively rare event, but as Amanda Rees shows, it has enormously significant consequences. Identified in the 1960s as a phenomenon worthy of investigation, infanticide had, by the 1970s, become the focus of... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $29.60 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Intelligence of Apes and Other Rational Beings by Duane M. Rumbaugh Publisher Comments What is animal intelligence? In what ways is it similar to human intelligence? Many behavioral scientists have realized that animals can be rational, can think in abstract symbols, can understand and react to human speech, and can learn through... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $40.00 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Kinship and Behavior in Primates by Bernard Chapais Publisher Comments This book presents a series of review chapters on the various aspects of primate kinship and behavior, as a fundamental reference for students and professionals interested in primate behavior, ecology and evolution. The relatively new molecular data... (read more) Your price: $183.50 New - Hardcover
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