Behavioral Flexibility in Primates: Causes and Consequences

✍ Scribed by Clara B. Jones (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 199
• Series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Clara B. Jones, Ph.D. has studied spiders, fish, monkeys, and humans, including work in the field, in zoological gardens, and in the laboratory. Most of her research, beginning in 1973, has been conducted on the howling monkeys of Central America. Her publications primarily relate to sexual selection, reproductive competition, social organization, interindividual conflicts of interest, dispersal, and evolution in heterogeneous regimes. She has also contributed to the literature on primate conservation and population biology.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Introduction to Intraindividual Variation of Primate Behavior....Pages 1-15
The Costs and Benefits of Behavioral Flexibility to Inclusive Fitness: Dispersal as an Option in Heterogeneous Regimes....Pages 17-29
Primate Signatures and Behavioral Flexibility in Heterogeneous Regimes....Pages 31-45
Social Cognition and Behavioral Flexibility: Categorical Decision-Making as a Primate Signature....Pages 47-59
Female Primates as “Energy-Maximizers” in Heterogeneous Regimes....Pages 61-78
Male Primates: “Time-Minimizers” in Heterogeneous Regimes....Pages 79-92
Intersexual Interactions in Heterogeneous Regimes: Potential Effects of Antagonistic Coevolution in Primate Groups....Pages 93-107
Sociosexual Organization and the Expression of Behavioral Flexibility....Pages 109-121
Behavioral Flexibility: Interpretations and Prospects....Pages 123-138
Back Matter....Pages 139-183

✦ Subjects

Behavioural Sciences; Animal Ecology; Developmental Biology; Evolutionary Biology; Zoology; Vertebrates