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Primate Societies

Primate Societies( )
Editor: Smuts, Barbara B.
Cheney, Dorothy L.
Seyfarth, Robert M.
Wrangham, Richard W.
ISBN:978-0-226-76716-1
Publication Date:May 1987
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $104.95
Book Description:

Primate Societies is a synthesis of the most current
information on primate socioecology and its theoretical and
empirical significance, spanning the disciplines of behavioral
biology, ecology, anthropology, and psychology. It is a very rich
source of ideas about other taxa.

"A superb synthesis of knowledge about the social lives of
non-human primates."--Alan Dixson, Nature

Book Details
Pages:585
Detailed Subjects: Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / Primatology
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):21.59 x 27.94 x 3.302 cm
Book Weight:1.364 Kilograms
Author Biography
(Editor)
Dorothy Leavitt Cheney was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 24, 1950. She received a bachelor's degree in political science from Wellesley College in 1972 and a Ph.D. in zoology from Cambridge University in 1977. She taught at Rockefeller University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Pennsylvania.

She and her husband and research partner Robert M. Seyfarth studied gorillas, baboons, and vervet monkeys in Africa. They wrote several books including How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species and Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind. She died from breast cancer on November 9, 2018 at the age of 68.

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