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The Missing Lemur Link Ivan Norscia (Universita degli Studi, Pisa)

The Missing Lemur Link By Ivan Norscia (Universita degli Studi, Pisa)

Summary

Reviewing and expanding upon recent research into lemur behavioural traits, this comparative study analyses links between lemurs, primates and humans. Suitable for both experts and non-experts, this book attempts to break the conceptual walls between primate taxa to encourage further research into ancestral traits between primates and humans.

The Missing Lemur Link Summary

The Missing Lemur Link: An Ancestral Step in the Evolution of Human Behaviour by Ivan Norscia (Universita degli Studi, Pisa)

Lemurs share a common distant ancestor with humans. Following their own evolutionary pathway, lemurs provide the ideal model to shed light on the behavioural traits of primates including conflict management, communication strategies and society building and how these aspects of social living relate to those found in the anthropoid primates. Adopting a comparative approach throughout, lemur behaviour is cross-examined with that of monkeys, apes and humans. This book reviews and expands upon the newest fields of research in lemur behavioural biology, including recent analytical approaches that have so far been limited to studies of haplorrhine primates. Different methodological approaches are harmonised in this volume to break conceptual walls between both primate taxa and different disciplines. Through a focus on the methodologies behind lemur behaviour and social interactions, future primate researchers will be encouraged to produce directly comparable results.

About Ivan Norscia (Universita degli Studi, Pisa)

Ivan Norscia carries out research at the Natural History Museum, University of Pisa, Italy. He started investigating the behavioural ecology of lemurs in dry and wet forests of Madagascar and through his research has contributed to the redefinition of a lemur species (Avahi meridionalis). His research later expanded to the behaviour of monkeys, apes and humans. Elisabetta Palagi is a department member of the Natural History Museum, University of Pisa, Italy. Her research centres upon lemur individual recognition and multimodal signalling, which has expanded to other primate and non-primate animals. Most recently, in conjunction with Ivan Norscia, she has adopted a cross-species comparison approach to shed light on the biological foundation of human behaviour.

Table of Contents

An opening message Jane Goodall; Foreword Alison Jolly and Ian Tatterall; Preface; Part I. Communication: From Sociality to Society: 1. Who are you? How lemurs recognize each other in a small centred world; 2. What do you mean? Multimodal communication for a better signal transmission; 3. Vertical living: sexual selection strategies and upright locomotion; Part II. How Conflicts Shape Societies: 4. Bossing around the forest: power asymmetry and hierarchy; 5. Something to make peace for: conflict management and resolution; 6. Anxiety...from scratch: emotional response to tense situations; Part III. Why Lemurs Keep in Touch: 7. Playing lemurs: why primates have been playing for a long time; 8. Sex is not on discount: mating market and lemurs; 9. Understanding lemurs: future directions in lemur cognition; Afterword Michael Huffman; Index.

Additional information

GOR013771636
9781107016088
1107016088
The Missing Lemur Link: An Ancestral Step in the Evolution of Human Behaviour by Ivan Norscia (Universita degli Studi, Pisa)
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2016-06-09
300
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