Primate Paradigms: Sex Roles and Social Bonds

by Linda M. Fedigan

Book Overview

This critical review of behavior patterns in nonhuman primates is an excellent study of the importance of female roles in different social groups and their significance in the evolution of human social life.

"A book that properly illuminates in rich detail not only developmental and socioecological aspects of primate behavior but also how and why certain questions are asked. In addition, the book frequently focuses on insufficiently answered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226239489
• ISBN13: 9780226239484
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"