Reproduction and fitness in baboons:behavioral, ecological, and life history perspectives

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Group Author: Swedell Larissa.; Leigh Steven R., 1958-
Published: Springer,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: c2006.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Developments in primatology : progress and prospects
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-33674-9
Carrier Form: viii, 322 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780387336749 (electronic bk.)
0387336745 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: Q959
CLC: Q959.848.08
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Perspectives on reproduction and life history in baboons / Larissa Swedell & Steven R. Leigh -- Infant mortality, paternity certainty, and female reproductive strategies in hamadryas baboons / Larissa Swedell & Julian Saunders -- Female behavioral strategies of hybrid baboons in the Awash National Park, Ethiopia / Jacinta C. Beehner & Thore J. Bergman -- Hybrid baboons and the origins of the hamadryas male reproductive strategy / Thore J. Bergman -- The social and ecological flexibility of Guinea baboons : implications for Guinea baboon social organization and male strategies / Anh Galat-Luong, Gérard Galat & Suzanne Hagell -- Social organization, reproductive systems, and mediation of baboon endogenous virus (BaEV) copy number in gelada, hamadryas, and other Papio baboons / Monica Uddin, Jane E. Phillips-Conroy & Clifford J. Jolly -- Reproduction, mortality, and female reproductive success in chacma baboons of the Okavango Delta, Botswana / Dorothy L. Cheney ... [et al.] -- Maternal characteristics and offspring growth in chacma baboons : a life-history perspective / Sara E. Johnson -- Whose life is it anyway? Maternal investment, developmental trajectories, and life history strategies in baboons / Louise Barrett, S. Peter Henzi & John E. Lycett -- Ontogeny, life history, and maternal investment in baboons / Steven R. Leigh & Robin M. Bernstein -- Testicular size, developmental trajectories, and male life history strategies in four baboon taxa / Clifford J. Jolly & Jane E. Phillips-Conroy -- The evolutionary past and the research future : environmental variation and life history flexibility in a primate lineage / Susan C. Alberts & Jeanne Altmann.