Primate Societies: Group Techniques of Ecological Adaptation (Worlds of Man) - Softcover

Kummer, Hans

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0202010813 ISBN 13: 9780202010816

Publisher: Aldine Atherton, 1971

Synopsis

Fair book with tear to spine. Shelf and edge wear.

About this title

About the Author

Hans Kummer earned his Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Zurich. His research projects include study of the spatial and fami1y organization of primate groups at the Delta Regional Primate Research Center at Covington, La., and three years of field study of the social behavior of baboons in Ethiopia. Dr. Kummer has contributed articles to many journals and symposia. Since 1969, he has been Assistant Professor of Zoology at the University of Zurich.

Review

“[This book is a] review of affairs in baboon societies, and they prove to be diverse enough to provide many models for our own irascible ancestors... As an exploration of ideas about both the causal and functional relationships between environment and social behaviour kummer’s book provides a stimulating survey, and exciting reading.”

—Peter Jewell, Journal of Animal Ecology

“The Swiss zoologist Hans Kummer is well known for his classical studies of social organization among baboons. In this short but fascinating book, he has analysed primate societies with freshness and clarity, and put down his findings in beautiful English, lucid, precise and mercifully free from jargon... [W]hat makes the book of absorbing interest to anthropologists... is Kummer’s detailed analysis of particular social adaptations.”

—W. M. S. Russell, Man

“Kummer’s book is a most interesting stimulating presentation which suggests a fresh look at nonhuman primate studies. Furthermore, it opens new vistas for a host of research topics.”

—Frank E. Poirier, American Anthropologist

“Kummer has presented a skillful description of the intricacies of behavior and society and their relationships with habitat. The book offers profitable reading no matter what one’s level of sophistication regarding primate behavior.”

—James Loy, Science

“Primate Societies is about nonhuman primates and is valuable because Kummer offers many ideas and hypotheses which may well help to synthesize the exploding knowledge of monkey and ape behavior.”

—Benjamin B. Beck, Evolution

“This small volume on primate social behavior is at once a simple introductory textbook and a highly sophisticated theoretical work... Short, colorful, highly readable, and completely authoritative, Kummer’s book is equally suitable as a collateral text for undergraduate courses in psychology, biology, or anthropology or as a discussion piece for graduate seminars in animal behavior.”

—Nicholas S. Thompson, The Quarterly Review of Biology

Edition details

• Publisher: Aldine Atherton
• Publication date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0202010813
• ISBN 13: 9780202010816
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160