Overview

This is a groundbreaking workwhich brought together studiesof monkeys and apes from boththe laboratory and the field. Manybroad aspects of primate life,including facial expressions,sexual signals, grooming, play,social organization and parental care, are covered bythe contributors and provided a whole new approach toprimate behavior.

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Author:   Pendleton Herring ,  Desmond Morris
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   AldineTransaction
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780202308265

ISBN 10:   020230826
Pages:   420
Publication Date:   09 January 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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<p> This disparate series of chapters covers a number of topics of value to sociologists who are concerned with non-verbal communication: facial and sexual displays, social relations and social organization of monkeys and apes, and an analysis of the social behaviour of nursery school children. <p> --V. Reynolds, The British Journal of Sociology <p> This book contains ten previously unpublished essays on a variety of aspects of primate behavior... The work is of the careful and high quality characteristic of modern ethology. <p> --George Bateson, American Anthropologist <p> The profusely documented and elaborately illustrated Primate Ethology is a very rewarding book... Excellent illustrations and commendably accurate documentation make this book one which all scientists can safely take home in the knowledge that, after providing stimulating reading, it will remain for reference on their shelves. <p> --M. R. A. Chance, Man <p> The book contains some important original data... a number of... thoughtful revies and comparative articles by Van Hoof, ... Wickler, ... Sparks, ... and Loizos, ... and one new direction--an ethological study of nursery school children. There is a characteristic emphasis throughout on the detailed description of communicative motor patterns, an emphasis which renders the book particularly valuable to the specialist. <p> --Nicholas S. Thompson, The Quarterly Review of Biology <p> This book will be useful to primate behaviorists. <p> --Charles H. Southwick, Science

This disparate series of chapters covers a number of topics of value to sociologists who are concerned with non-verbal communication: facial and sexual displays, social relations and social organization of monkeys and apes, and an analysis of the social behaviour of nursery school children. --V. Reynolds, The British Journal of Sociology This book contains ten previously unpublished essays on a variety of aspects of primate behavior... The work is of the careful and high quality characteristic of modern ethology. --George Bateson, American Anthropologist The profusely documented and elaborately illustrated Primate Ethology is a very rewarding book... Excellent illustrations and commendably accurate documentation make this book one which all scientists can safely take home in the knowledge that, after providing stimulating reading, it will remain for reference on their shelves. --M. R. A. Chance, Man The book contains some important original data... a number of... thoughtful revies and comparative articles by Van Hoof, ... Wickler, ... Sparks, ... and Loizos, ... and one new direction--an ethological study of nursery school children. There is a characteristic emphasis throughout on the detailed description of communicative motor patterns, an emphasis which renders the book particularly valuable to the specialist. --Nicholas S. Thompson, The Quarterly Review of Biology This book will be useful to primate behaviorists. --Charles H. Southwick, Science

This disparate series of chapters covers a number of topics of value to sociologists who are concerned with non-verbal communication: facial and sexual displays, social relations and social organization of monkeys and apes, and an analysis of the social behaviour of nursery school children. --V. Reynolds, The British Journal of Sociology The work is of the careful and high quality characteristic of modern ethology. --George Bateson, American Anthropologist The profusely documented and elaborately illustrated Primate Ethology is a very rewarding book... Excellent illustrations and commendably accurate documentation make this book one which all scientists can safely take home in the knowledge that, after providing stimulating reading, it will remain for reference on their shelves. --M. R. A. Chance, Man The book contains some important original data... a number of... thoughtful revies and comparative articles by Van Hoof, ... Wickler, ... Sparks, ... and Loizos, ... and one new direction--an ethological study of nursery school children. There is a characteristic emphasis throughout on the detailed description of communicative motor patterns, an emphasis which renders the book particularly valuable to the specialist. --Nicholas S. Thompson, The Quarterly Review of Biology This book will be useful to primate behaviorists. --Charles H. Southwick, Science This exciting books shows ethology solidifying its correlations between patterned acts and the social and individual meaning of this behavior with careful avoidance of anthropomorphic interpretation. --J. Lawrence Angel, Human Biology

This disparate series of chapters covers a number of topics of value to sociologists who are concerned with non-verbal communication: facial and sexual displays, social relations and social organization of monkeys and apes, and an analysis of the social behaviour of nursery school children. --V. Reynolds, The British Journal of Sociology This book contains ten previously unpublished essays on a variety of aspects of primate behavior... The work is of the careful and high quality characteristic of modern ethology. --George Bateson, American Anthropologist The profusely documented and elaborately illustrated Primate Ethology is a very rewarding book... Excellent illustrations and commendably accurate documentation make this book one which all scientists can safely take home in the knowledge that, after providing stimulating reading, it will remain for reference on their shelves. --M. R. A. Chance, Man The book contains some important original data... a number of... thoughtful revies and comparative articles by Van Hoof, ... Wickler, ... Sparks, ... and Loizos, ... and one new direction--an ethological study of nursery school children. There is a characteristic emphasis throughout on the detailed description of communicative motor patterns, an emphasis which renders the book particularly valuable to the specialist. --Nicholas S. Thompson, The Quarterly Review of Biology This book will be useful to primate behaviorists. --Charles H. Southwick, Science This disparate series of chapters covers a number of topics of value to sociologists who are concerned with non-verbal communication: facial and sexual displays, social relations and social organization of monkeys and apes, and an analysis of the social behaviour of nursery school children. --V. Reynolds, The British Journal of Sociology The work is of the careful and high quality characteristic of modern ethology. --George Bateson, American Anthropologist The profusely documented and elaborately illustrated Primate Ethology is a very rewarding book... Excellent illustrations and commendably accurate documentation make this book one which all scientists can safely take home in the knowledge that, after providing stimulating reading, it will remain for reference on their shelves. --M. R. A. Chance, Man The book contains some important original data... a number of... thoughtful revies and comparative articles by Van Hoof, ... Wickler, ... Sparks, ... and Loizos, ... and one new direction--an ethological study of nursery school children. There is a characteristic emphasis throughout on the detailed description of communicative motor patterns, an emphasis which renders the book particularly valuable to the specialist. --Nicholas S. Thompson, The Quarterly Review of Biology This book will be useful to primate behaviorists. --Charles H. Southwick, Science This exciting books shows ethology solidifying its correlations between patterned acts and the social and individual meaning of this behavior with careful avoidance of anthropomorphic interpretation. --J. Lawrence Angel, Human Biology This disparate series of chapters covers a number of topics of value to sociologists who are concerned with non-verbal communication: facial and sexual displays, social relations and social organization of monkeys and apes, and an analysis of the social behaviour of nursery school children. --V. Reynolds, The British Journal of Sociology The work is of the careful and high quality characteristic of modern ethology. --George Bateson, American Anthropologist The profusely documented and elaborately illustrated Primate Ethology is a very rewarding book... Excellent illustrations and commendably accurate documentation make this book one which all scientists can safely take home in the knowledge that, after providing stimulating reading, it will remain for reference on their shelves. --M. R. A. Chance, Man The book contains some important original data... a number of... thoughtful revies and comparative articles by Van Hoof, ... Wickler, ... Sparks, ... and Loizos, ... and one new direction--an ethological study of nursery school children. There is a characteristic emphasis throughout on the detailed description of communicative motor patterns, an emphasis which renders the book particularly valuable to the specialist. --Nicholas S. Thompson, The Quarterly Review of Biology This book will be useful to primate behaviorists. --Charles H. Southwick, Science This exciting books shows ethology solidifying its correlations between patterned acts and the social and individual meaning of this behavior with careful avoidance of anthropomorphic interpretation. --J. Lawrence Angel, Human Biology -This disparate series of chapters covers a number of topics of value to sociologists who are concerned with non-verbal communication: facial and sexual displays, social relations and social organization of monkeys and apes, and an analysis of the social behaviour of nursery school children.- --V. Reynolds, The British Journal of Sociology -The work is of the careful and high quality characteristic of modern ethology.- --George Bateson, American Anthropologist -The profusely documented and elaborately illustrated Primate Ethology is a very rewarding book... Excellent illustrations and commendably accurate documentation make this book one which all scientists can safely take home in the knowledge that, after providing stimulating reading, it will remain for reference on their shelves.- --M. R. A. Chance, Man -The book contains some important original data... a number of... thoughtful revies and comparative articles by Van Hoof, ... Wickler, ... Sparks, ... and Loizos, ... and one new direction--an ethological study of nursery school children. There is a characteristic emphasis throughout on the detailed description of communicative motor patterns, an emphasis which renders the book particularly valuable to the specialist.- --Nicholas S. Thompson, The Quarterly Review of Biology -This book will be useful to primate behaviorists.- --Charles H. Southwick, Science -This exciting books shows ethology solidifying its correlations between patterned acts and the social and individual meaning of this behavior with careful avoidance of anthropomorphic interpretation.- --J. Lawrence Angel, Human Biology

Author Information

Desmond Morris , author of The Naked Ape and The Human Zoo was born in Wiltshire, England in 1928. In 1951 he graduated from the University of Birmingham with first class honors and moved to Oxford to pursue doctoral studies in animal behavior under the tutorship of Dr. Niko Tinbergen. In 1973 Desmond Morris returned to Oxford as a research fellow at Wolfson College. In this role he worked with Tinbergen's research group in the Department of Zoology and would continue to research human action-patterns. Over the ensuing years he has maintained his many interests in animal behavior research, the arts, and in making television programs and films. The more significant publications in these more recent years include Manwatching, a Field-Guide to Human Behaviour (1977), The Human Animal (1994) and Peoplewatching (2002). Darryl Bruce is professor of psychology at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, USA. He is the author of many articles and the co-editor of Autobiographical Memory: Theoretical and Applied Perspective and Eyewitness Memory: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives .

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