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Multivariate discrimination, tooth measurements and early hominid taxonomy
(Elsevier, 1976-07)
It is argued that the value of the various multivariate approaches in dealing with functional, taxonomic, and phylogenetic problems can only be determined empirically. A review of three studies dealing with multivariate ...
Book reviews
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1989-09)
Number of males in primate groups: Comparative tests of competing hypotheses
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1996)
Primate social groups frequently contain multiple males. Male group size has been hypothesized to result from male mating competition, but the selective factors responsible for the evolution of multimale groups are unclear. ...
Krapina, "Classic" Neanderthals, and the evolution of the European face,
(Elsevier, 1979-07)
Except for the front end of the dental arch, tooth size remained at approximately the same level throughout the Middle Pleistocene. The Krapina Neanderthals at the end of the last interglacial differed from Homo erectus ...
Developmental adaptation to high altitude hypoxia
(Springer-Verlag; Swets & Zeitlinger B.V., 1977-06)
Experimental studies on animals and humans exposed to hypoxic stress have been reviewed. These data suggest that the influence of hypoxic stress, and the organism's response to it, are greater during growth than during ...
Introduction: Human ecology in the Himalaya
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1989-06)
Knowledge of human adaptation in the Himalayas has developed more slowly than that for other world mountain systems. At the same time, the opening of the region to research has focused attention toward description in a ...
Geographic variation in the calls of wild chimpanzees: A reassessment
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999)
Male chimpanzees produce a species-typical call, the pant hoot, to communicate to conspecifics over long-distances. Calls given by males from the well-known Gombe and Mahale populations typically consist of four different ...
Predatory behavior of crowned hawk-eagles (Stephanoaetus coronatus ) in Kibale National Park, Uganda
(Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2001-01)
Evaluating the nature and significance of predation on populations of wild primates has been difficult given a paucity of data regarding the phenomenon. Here we addressed this problem in a 37-month study of the predatory ...
Demographic influences on the behavior of chimpanzees
(Springer-Verlag; Japan Monkey Centre and Springer-Verlag, 2006-01)
Recent research has revealed substantial diversity in the behavior of wild chimpanzees. Understanding the sources of this variation has become a central focus of investigation. While genetic, ecological, and cultural factors ...
Family organization and the wage labor transition in a Tamang community of Nepal
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1990-09)
This paper explores familial contexts of transition to a wage labor economy using ethnographic and survey data from Tamang communities at the northern edge of Nepal's Kathmandu Valley. Historically agro-pastoralist, the ...