Primate Social Conflict

Author : William A. Mason,Sally P. Mendoza
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438412184

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Primate Social Conflict by William A. Mason,Sally P. Mendoza Pdf

This book examines conflict as a normal and recurrent feature of primate social life, emphasizing that the study of aggression and social conflict is important to understanding the basic processes that contribute to social order. The authors go well beyond the usual view which tends to equate social conflict with fights over food, mates, or social supremacy, and analyze the diverse manifestations and significance of conflict in a variety of case studies. Contributors are scientists with field and laboratory experience in anthropology, behavioral endocrinology, ethology, and psychology. Utilizing the growing body of research on life-span development in primatology, the authors offer more extensive analyses of the complexity of primate social relationships.

Author : William A. Mason,Sally P. Mendoza
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0791412415

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Primate Social Conflict by William A. Mason,Sally P. Mendoza Pdf

This book examines conflict as a normal and recurrent feature of primate social life, emphasizing that the study of aggression and social conflict is important to understanding the basic processes that contribute to social order. The authors go well beyond the usual view which tends to equate social conflict with fights over food, mates, or social supremacy, and analyze the diverse manifestations and significance of conflict in a variety of case studies. Contributors are scientists with field and laboratory experience in anthropology, behavioral endocrinology, ethology, and psychology. Utilizing the growing body of research on life-span development in primatology, the authors offer more extensive analyses of the complexity of primate social relationships.

Author : Frans B. M. DE WAAL,F. B. M. de Waal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674033085

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Peacemaking among Primates by Frans B. M. DE WAAL,F. B. M. de Waal Pdf

Examines how simians cope with aggression, and how they make peace after fights.

Author : Filippo Aureli,Frans B. M. Waal
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520223462

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Natural Conflict Resolution by Filippo Aureli,Frans B. M. Waal Pdf

"Filippo Aureli and Frans De Waal have succeeded in cross-fertilizing fields as disparate as ethology and medieval law to create a rich new field of research -- natural conflict resolution. It makes one see conflict resolution among humans through a new and fascinating lens. This is a landmark contribution!"—William Ury, co-author Getting to YES, author of Getting Past No and Getting to Peace

Author : Dario Maestripieri
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780674040427

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Primate Psychology by Dario Maestripieri Pdf

In more ways than we may sometimes care to acknowledge, the human being is just another primate--it is certainly only very rarely that researchers into cognition, emotion, personality, and behavior in our species and in other primates come together to compare notes and share insights. This book, one of the few comprehensive attempts at integrating behavioral research into human and nonhuman primates, does precisely that--and in doing so, offers a clear, in-depth look at the mutually enlightening work being done in psychology and primatology. Relying on theories of behavior derived from psychology rather than ecology or biological anthropology, the authors, internationally known experts in primatology and psychology, focus primarily on social processes in areas including aggression, conflict resolution, sexuality, attachment, parenting, social development and affiliation, cognitive development, social cognition, personality, emotions, vocal and nonvocal communication, cognitive neuroscience, and psychopathology. They show nonhuman primates to be far more complex, cognitively and emotionally, than was once supposed, with provocative implications for our understanding of supposedly unique human characteristics. Arguing that both human and nonhuman primates are distinctive for their wide range of context-sensitive behaviors, their work makes a powerful case for the future integration of human and primate behavioral research.

Author : Glendon A. Schubert,Roger D. Masters
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0809316110

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Primate Politics by Glendon A. Schubert,Roger D. Masters Pdf

The first book to focus on the political behavior of primates also undertakes to compare human social behavior with that of nonhuman primates. The editors contribute probing introductory essays to each of the three major parts of the volume in addition to their article-length introductory and concluding chapters. In his conclusion, Masters indicates directions for future work. Part I is devoted to theoretical clarification of the interrelationships between the study of primates and humans. Part II presents two examples of comparisons between animal and human social behavior that throw valuable light on contemporary political and social systems. Part III focuses more precisely on contemporary human politics, providing two concrete examples of ethological perspectives on human political behavior. In both cases, nonverbal cues studied by primatologists are shown to illuminate the dynamics of human politics. Contributors include: Nicholas G. Blurton-Jones, Frans B. M. de Waal, Basil G. Englis, Jane Goodall, Bruno Latour, Roger D. Masters, Gregory J. McHugo, Elise F. Plate, Thelma E. Rowell, Glendon Schubert, James N. Schubert, Shirley S. Strum, and Denis G. Sullivan.

Author : Hans-Henning Kortüm,Jürgen Heinze
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783110291360

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Aggression in Humans and Other Primates by Hans-Henning Kortüm,Jürgen Heinze Pdf

In this work aggression and conflict in man and other primates are interpreted in the light of evolutionary biology and game theory models. Unitl now interdisciplinary collaboration between the humanities and the natural sciences has been rare and hampered by different methodologies and terminology. Nevertheless, such cooperation is essential for elucidating the causes and consequences of aggression in humans and in explaining what shape aggression takes in particular situations. The aim of this volume is to present empirical and theoretical studies from biologists and social scientists to create an interdisciplinary framework for understanding aggression.

Author : Sindhu Radhakrishna,Michael A. Huffman,Anindya Sinha
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461439677

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The Macaque Connection by Sindhu Radhakrishna,Michael A. Huffman,Anindya Sinha Pdf

The concept of this book arises from a symposium entitled “Human-Macaque Interactions: Traditional and Modern Perspectives on Cooperation and Conflict ” organized at the 23rd Congress of the International Primatological Society, that was held in Kyoto in September 2010. The symposium highlighted the many aspects of human-macaque relations and some of the participants were invited to contribute to this volume. The volume will include about 11 chapters by a variety of international authors and some excerpts from published literature that illustrate cultural notions of macaques. Contributions from invited authors will engage with four main perspectives – traditional views of macaques, cooperative relationships between humans and macaques, current scenarios of human-macaque conflict, and how living with and beside humans has affected macaques. Authors will address these concerns through their research findings and reviews of their work on the Asian, and the lone African, macaques. ​

Author : Carol Sue Carter,I. Izja Lederhendler,Brian Kirkpatrick
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0262531585

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The Integrative Neurobiology of Affiliation by Carol Sue Carter,I. Izja Lederhendler,Brian Kirkpatrick Pdf

This book examines the biological, especially the neural, substrates of affiliation and related social behaviors. Affiliation refers to social behaviors that bring individuals closer together. This includes such associations as attachment, parent-offspring interactions, pair-bonding, and the building of coalitions. Affiliations provide a social matrix within which other behaviors, including reproduction and aggression, may occur. While reproduction and aggression also reduce the distance between individuals, their expression is regulated in part by the positive social fabric of affiliative behavior.Until recently, researchers have paid little attention to the regulatory physiology and neural processes that subserve affiliative behaviors. The integrative approach in this book reflects the constructive interactions between those who study behavior in the context of natural history and evolution and those who study the nervous system.The book contains the partial proceedings of a conference of the same title held in Washington, DC, in 1996. The full proceedings was published as part of the Annals of the York Academy of Sciences.

Author : Kurt Benirschke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1027 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461249184

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Primates by Kurt Benirschke Pdf

This conference represents the first time in my life when I felt it was a misfor tune, rather than a major cause of my happiness, that I do conservation work in New Guinea. Yes, it is true that New Guinea is a fascinating microcosm, it has fascinating birds and people, and it has large expanses of undisturbed rainforest. In the course of my work there, helping the Indonesian government and World Wildlife Fund set up a comprehensive national park system, I have been able to study animals in areas without any human population. But New Guinea has one serious drawback: it has no primates, except for humans. Thus, I come to this conference on primate conservation as an underprivileged and emotionally deprived observer, rather than as an involved participant. Nevertheless, it is easy for anyone to become interested in primate conserva tion. The public cares about primates. More specifically, to state things more realistically, many people care some of the time about some primates. Primates are rivaled only by birds, pandas, and the big cats in their public appeal. For some other groups of animals, the best we can say is that few people care about them, infrequently. For most groups of animals, no one cares about them, ever.

Author : Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781468466942

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Primate Social Systems by Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar Pdf

This book grew from small beginnings as I began to find unexpected patterns emerging from the data in the literature. The more I thought about the way in which primate social systems worked, the more interesting things turned out to be. I am conscious that, at times, this has introduced a certain amount of complexity into the text. I make no apologies for that: what we are dealing with is a complex subject, the product of evolutionary forces interacting with very sophisticated minds. None the less, I have done my best to explain every thing as clearly as I can in order to make the book accessible to as wide an audience as possible. I have laid a heavy emphasis in this book on the use of simple graphical and mathematical models. Their sophistication, however, is not great and does not assume more than a knowledge of elementary probability theory. Since their role will inevitably be misunderstood, I take this opportunity to stress that their function is essentially heuristic rather than explanatory: they are designed to focus our attention on the key issues so as to point out the directions for further research. A model is only as good as the questions it prompts us to ask. For those whose natural inclination is to dismiss modelling out of hand, I can only point to the precision that their use can offer us in terms of hypothesis-testing.

Author : Frans B. M. de Waal,F. B. M. de Waal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674253667

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Good Natured by Frans B. M. de Waal,F. B. M. de Waal Pdf

To observe a dog's guilty look. to witness a gorilla's self-sacrifice for a wounded mate, to watch an elephant herd's communal effort on behalf of a stranded calf--to catch animals in certain acts is to wonder what moves them. Might there he a code of ethics in the animal kingdom? Must an animal be human to he humane? In this provocative book, a renowned scientist takes on those who have declared ethics uniquely human Making a compelling case for a morality grounded in biology, he shows how ethical behavior is as much a matter of evolution as any other trait, in humans and animals alike. World famous for his brilliant descriptions of Machiavellian power plays among chimpanzees-the nastier side of animal life--Frans de Waal here contends that animals have a nice side as well. Making his case through vivid anecdotes drawn from his work with apes and monkeys and holstered by the intriguing, voluminous data from his and others' ongoing research, de Waal shows us that many of the building blocks of morality are natural: they can he observed in other animals. Through his eyes, we see how not just primates but all kinds of animals, from marine mammals to dogs, respond to social rules, help each other, share food, resolve conflict to mutual satisfaction, even develop a crude sense of justice and fairness. Natural selection may be harsh, but it has produced highly successful species that survive through cooperation and mutual assistance. De Waal identifies this paradox as the key to an evolutionary account of morality, and demonstrates that human morality could never have developed without the foundation of fellow feeling our species shares with other animals. As his work makes clear, a morality grounded in biology leads to an entirely different conception of what it means to he human--and humane.

Author : Michael Eric Pereira,Lynn A. Fairbanks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003418444

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Juvenile Primates by Michael Eric Pereira,Lynn A. Fairbanks Pdf

What is a juvenile? Why do primates take so long to grow up? What forces shape the behavior of juvenile primates, and how do experiences during these early years influence life as an adult? Juvenile Primates is the first book to focus specifically on the primate juvenile period. Using a life-history approach, contributors to this volume consider the paradoxes inherent in the unusually long juvenile process exhibited by primates as they present new data on the challenges faced by juveniles across a broad range of species. Individual chapters focus on prosimians, Old and New World monkeys, apes, and humans, and topics include the development of sex differences, meeting needs for safety, establishing and maintaining social relationships, managing social conflict, and developing skills for adult life. The book concludes with a look at children and how cross-cultural differences in physical and behavioral development can be understood in terms of evolutionary theory. The result is a landmark in primate studies, one that shows how understanding juvenile development yields insight into entire life histories. The book will be of interest to anthropologists, biologists, primatologists, and psychologists.

Author : Martin N. Muller,Richard W. Wrangham
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-19
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0674033248

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Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans by Martin N. Muller,Richard W. Wrangham Pdf

This book presents extensive field research and analysis to evaluate sexual coercion in a range of species—including all of the great apes and humans—and to clarify its role in shaping social relationships among males, among females, and between the sexes.

Author : Jessica C. Flack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1426861759

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Robustness Mechanisms in Primate Societies by Jessica C. Flack Pdf