The New Chimpanzee : A Twenty-First-Century Portrait of Our Closest Kin / Craig Stanford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanford, Craig, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chimpanzees--Behavior.

Chimpanzees.

Primatology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations, map, graphs

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The history of research into the lives of wild chimpanzees now spans more than a half-century since Jane Goodall began it all. The past 20 years have seen tremendous advances in our understanding of our closest kin. These include revelations about our very similar genomes, but also many new discoveries about social behavior and ecology. New cultural traditions and forms of tool use, new evidence for the causes of violence, new evidence of patterns of hunting and meat-eating, and much more. Chimpanzees are new and different apes than they were at the close of the last century. The New Chimpanzee synthesizes the findings of the past 20 years and offers new insights and interpretations of what researchers have learned. The New Chimpanzee draws from results of the 7 longest term (25-55 years) research projects from which we've learned the most about the species, augmented by other shorter field projects conducted in recent years, including my own.-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Watching Chimpanzees

2. Fission, Fusion, and Food

3. Politics is War without Bloodshed

4. War for Peace

5. Sex and Reproduction

6. Growing Up Chimpanzee

7. Why Chimpanzees Hunt

8. Got Culture?

9. Blood Is Thicker

10. Ape into Human

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Credits

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)

ISBN:

9780674919754

0674919750

9780674919778

0674919777

OCLC:

1025341092