Biology and Feminism

Biology and Feminism
Author: Lynn Hankinson Nelson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2017-09-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1107090180

A balanced and accessible introduction to the engagements that feminist scientists and science scholars undertake with a variety of biological sciences.

Primates

Primates
Author: Jim Ottaviani
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2013-06-11
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1596438657

A fun and immersive look into the lives of the three greatest primatologists of the twentieth century: Biruté Galdikas, Dian Fossey, and Jane Goodall, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Feynman.

Studying Primates

Studying Primates
Author: Joanna M. Setchell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2019-09-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1108421717

The essential guide to successfully designing, conducting and reporting primatological research.

Spatial Analysis in Field Primatology

Spatial Analysis in Field Primatology
Author: Francine L. Dolins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2021-02-18
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1107062306

A primatologist's guide to using geographic information systems (GIS); from mapping and field accuracy, to tracking travel routes and the impact of logging.

Ethnoprimatology

Ethnoprimatology
Author: Kerry M. Dore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2017-02-23
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1107109965

A how-to guide for ethnoprimatological research in the Anthropocene, offering an inside look at the latest research in the field.

Field and Laboratory Methods in Primatology

Field and Laboratory Methods in Primatology
Author: Joanna M. Setchell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2011-02-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1139496069

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 field experiments and measuring behaviour. It provides essential information and advice on the technical and practical aspects of both field and laboratory methods, covering topics such as ethnoprimatology; remote sensing; GPS and radio-tracking; trapping and handling; dietary ecology; and non-invasive genetics and endocrinology. This integrated approach opens up new opportunities to study the behavioural ecology of some of the most endangered primates and to collect information on previously studied populations. Chapters include methodological techniques; instructions on collecting, processing and preserving samples/data for later analysis; ethical considerations; comparative costs; and further reading, making this an invaluable tool for postgraduate students and researchers in primatology, behavioural ecology and zoology.

The Promise of Contemporary Primatology

The Promise of Contemporary Primatology
Author: Erin P. Riley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2019-08-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0429853815

This book argues for a contemporary primatology that recognizes humans as integral components in the ecologies of primates. This contemporary primatology uses a broadened theoretical lens and methodological toolkit to study primate behavior and ecology in increasingly anthropogenic contexts and seeks points of intersection and spaces for collaborative exchange across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The book begins by exploring the American tradition of anthropology, providing historical and disciplinary context for the emergence of field primatology and how it became a part of this tradition. It then examines how primatology transformed into a field dominated by evolutionary approaches and highlights how the increasingly anthropogenic environments in which primates live present opportunities to understand primate adaptability at work. In doing so, it explores how an extended evolutionary approach can help explain behavioral variation in these contemporary environments. Focus is then given to the ethnoprimatological approach, a contemporary approach that provides a pluralistic framework, drawing from the natural and social sciences and humanities, needed to study human-primate coexistence in the Anthropocene. Finally, the book considers how such a crossing of disciplines can inform primate conservation in the future. An important interdisciplinary reassessment, this book will be of significant interest to primatologists, biological anthropologists, and scholars of anthropology more generally, as well as evolutionary and conservation biologists.

Primate Anti-Predator Strategies

Primate Anti-Predator Strategies
Author: Sharon Gursky-Doyen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2007-05-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0387348107

This volume details the different ways that nocturnal primates avoid predators. It is a first of its kind within primatology, and is therefore the only work giving a broad overview of predation – nocturnal primate predation theory in particular – in the field Additionally, the book incorporates several chapters on the theoretical advances that researchers studying nocturnal primates need to make.

Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior

Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior
Author: Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2008-06-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 4431094229

Biologists and anthropologists in Japan have played a crucial role in the development of primatology as a scientific discipline. Publication of Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior under the editorship of Tetsuro Matsuzawa reaffirms the pervasive and creative role played by the intellectual descendants of Kinji Imanishi and Junichiro Itani in the fields of behavioral ecology, psychology, and cognitive science. Matsuzawa and his colleagues-humans and other primate partners- explore a broad range of issues including the phylogeny of perception and cognition; the origin of human speech; learning and memory; recognition of self, others, and species; society and social interaction; and culture. With data from field and laboratory studies of more than 90 primate species and of more than 50 years of long-term research, the intellectual breadth represented in this volume makes it a major contribution to comparative cognitive science and to current views on the origin of the mind and behavior of humans.