Behavioral Regulators Of Behavior In Primates
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
At the crossroads of biology, psychology, and anthropology lies one of the most compelling questions in science: what governs the social lives of our closest animal relatives? Behavioral Regulators of Behavior in Primates, edited by the pioneering primatologist C. R. Carpenter, presents a landmark collection of scholarly contributions that systematically examines the biological, neurological, hormonal, and environmental mechanisms that shape and regulate primate behavior. Drawing on decades of field observation and laboratory research, the volume details how communication, dominance hierarchies, reproductive cycles, and group dynamics are governed by a complex interplay of internal and external forces — illuminating the roots of social organization in non-human primates with rigorous scientific authority. A foundational text in the history of primatology, this anthology reflects the intellectual breadth of mid-twentieth-century behavioral science at its most ambitious, uniting contributors from diverse disciplines under a unified framework of ethological inquiry. Carpenter himself was a towering figure in naturalistic primate study, having conducted landmark field research on howler monkeys and gibbons decades before the discipline coalesced into its modern form. The result is a volume that continues to reward readers with insights into the evolutionary underpinnings of behavior — raising questions about primate sociality that remain as urgent and unresolved today as when they were first posed.
Author: C. R. Carpenter
Format: Hardback
Published: 1973, Bucknell University Press
Genre: Zoology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
At the crossroads of biology, psychology, and anthropology lies one of the most compelling questions in science: what governs the social lives of our closest animal relatives? Behavioral Regulators of Behavior in Primates, edited by the pioneering primatologist C. R. Carpenter, presents a landmark collection of scholarly contributions that systematically examines the biological, neurological, hormonal, and environmental mechanisms that shape and regulate primate behavior. Drawing on decades of field observation and laboratory research, the volume details how communication, dominance hierarchies, reproductive cycles, and group dynamics are governed by a complex interplay of internal and external forces — illuminating the roots of social organization in non-human primates with rigorous scientific authority. A foundational text in the history of primatology, this anthology reflects the intellectual breadth of mid-twentieth-century behavioral science at its most ambitious, uniting contributors from diverse disciplines under a unified framework of ethological inquiry. Carpenter himself was a towering figure in naturalistic primate study, having conducted landmark field research on howler monkeys and gibbons decades before the discipline coalesced into its modern form. The result is a volume that continues to reward readers with insights into the evolutionary underpinnings of behavior — raising questions about primate sociality that remain as urgent and unresolved today as when they were first posed.