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<p> This book is a thoughtful and thought-provoking presentation of Smuts's fieldwork on the enduring preferential relationships between certain adult male and female baboons, relationships that persist irrespective of the female's reproductive state and that are both quantitatively and qualitatively different from other male-female associations.... This is a well-balanced meeting of ethnography and evolutionary biology, illustrated with vignettes that capture the flavor of baboon social life. <p> --Amy Samuels, The Quarterly Review of Biology <p> This book is a remarkable achievement, and may well be a landmark... on how to do a field study, how to analyse field data, and how to write up the results. The strength of the book is in its close attention to a single group of primates, which, coupled with considerable methodological rigour both at the observational and analytical stages, has led to the discovery of statistically valid findings. <p> --V. Reynolds, Man <p> Barbara Smuts adds to the growing storehouse of information on baboons, as well as to the growing awareness of the sophisticated (read humanlike ) way primates run their lives... The strength of Smuts's study is the documentation of subtle but important interactions among some age-sex classes in baboon societies. <p> --Adrienne L. Zihlman, American Anthropologist <p> Even though... years have passed since Smuts's book was published, it remains the standard reference for the study of male-female social interactions among primates. Part of the reason her book stays fresh is that Smuts deftly combines the presentation of her data on baboon social life with a primer on how to conduct a scientific study of primate behavior. She provides skillful guidance regarding how to devise and test a hypothesis and how to collect, analyze, interpret, and present data in an interesting and accessible way. Sex and Friendship in Baboons should be required reading. <p> --Nichelle L. Cobb, Current Anthropology <p>

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Barbara B. Smuts is professor of psychology and anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is also the author of Primate Societies .

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