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Tree of origin : what primate behavior can tell us about human social evolution / ed. Frans B. M. de WaalPiece-Analytic Level: The nature of culture : prospects and pitfals of cultural primatology • From primate communication to human language • Brains on two legs : group size and the evolution of intelligence • Social and technical forms of primate intelligence • Out of the pan, into the fire : how our ancestors evolution depended on what they ate • The ape's gift : meat-eating, meat-sharing, and human evolution • Beyond the apes : reasons to consider the entire primate order • apes from venus : bonobos and human sexual evolution • Of genes and apes : chimpazee social organization and reproductionPublication: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2001Description: 311 p.Availability:

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Psychoneuroimmunology : an interdisciplinary introduction / Manfred Schedlowski, Uwe TewesPiece-Analytic Level: The effects of stress on the immune system : implications for reactivation of latent herpesviruses • Psychoneuroimmunology and antoimmune diseases • Psychoneuroimmunology and HIV / AIDS • Psychoneuroimmunology in oncology • Behacioral conditioning of immunity • Functional relationship between the olfactory and immune systems • Sleep and immune functions • Effects of psychosocial interventions on the immune system • Biobehavioral influences on respiratory immunity • Exercise and immune functions • Does psychological depression cause immune suppression in humans? • Concepts and models if immunological change during prolonged stress • Acute psychological stress • Behavior / immune relationships in nonhuman primates • Stress effects on immune function in rodents • Sickness behavior : a neuroimmune-based to enfactous disease • The immune-neuroendocrine network • Opioid production by the immune system • Molecular anatomical basis of interactions between nervous and immune systems in health and disease • Methods in immunology • Endocrinal methods • Psychological methods • Concepts in psychology • Principles of endocrinology • Foundations in immunology • Functional anatomy of the immune systemPublication: New York : Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, 1999Description: 582 p.Availability:

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Primate life histories and socioecology / Peter M. Kappeler, Michael E. Pereira, Carel P. Van SchaikPiece-Analytic Level: Primate life histories and future research • Why are apes so smart? • Life history, infant care strategies, and brain size in primates • Matrix models for primate life history analysis • Human life histories : primate trade-offs, grandmothering socioecology, and the fossil record • Dental developmental and primate life histories • Models of primate development • Adaptions to seasonality : some primate and nonprimate examples • Puzzles, predation, and primates : using life history to understand selection pressures • Matrix models for primate life history analysis • Socioecological correlates of phenotypic plasticity of primare life histories • Primate life histories and phylogeny • Primate life histories and socioecologyPublication: London : University Of Chicago Press, 2003Description: 395 p.Availability:

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Intelligence of apes and other rational beings / Duane M. Rumbaugh, David A. WashburnPublication: Yale : New Haven : London : University, 2003Description: XVII, 326 p.Availability:

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Inbreeding, incest, and the incest taboo : the state of knowledge at the turn of the century / ed. Arthur P. Wolf, William H. DurhamPiece-Analytic Level: The incest taboo as Darwinian natural righ • Evolutionary thought and the current clinical understanding of incest • Refining the incest taboo : with considerable help from Bronislaw Malinowski • Assessing the gaps in Westmarck's theory • From genes to incest taboos : the crucial step • Ancient egyptian sibling marriage and the Westmarck effect • Explaining the Westmarck effect, or, what did natural selection select for? • Inbreeding avoidance in primates • Genetic astects of inbreeding and incest • Inbreeding avoidance and incest taboosPublication: Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2004Description: 228 p.Availability:

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Homosexual behaviour in animals : an evolutionary perspective / ed. Volker Sommer, Paul L. VaseyPiece-Analytic Level: Against nature?! : an epilogue about animal sex and the moral dimension • Where do we go from here? : research on the evolution of homosexual behaviour in animals • The evolution of male homosexuality and its implications for human psychological and cultural variations • Social grease for females? : same-sex genital contacts in wild bonobos • Playful encounters : the develop,ent of homosexual behaviour in male mountain gorillas • A wild mixture of motivations : same-sex mounting in Indian langur monkeys • Getting to know you : female-female consotships in free-ranging rhesus monkeys • The pursuit of pleasure : an evolutionary history of female homosexual behaviour in Japanese macaques • Frustated felines : male-male mounting in feral cats • Exciting ingulates : male-male mounting in fallow, white-tailed and red deer • Going with the herd : same-sex interaction and competition in American bison • Establishing trust : sociao-sexual behaviour and the development of male-male bonds among indian ocean bottlenose dolphins • Pink flamingos : atypical partenerships and sexual activity in colonially breeding birds • Making the ebst of a bad situation : homosociality in male greylag geese • Homesexual behaviour in animals : topics, hypotheses and research trajectoriesPublication: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006Description: 382 p.Availability:

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Evolving insight / Richard W. ByrnePublication: Oxford : Osford University Press, 2016Description: 200 p.Availability: :

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Dynamics in human and primate societies : agent-based modeling of social and spatial processes / ed. Timothy A. Kohler, George J. GumermanPiece-Analytic Level: Modeling sociality : the view from Europe • Fractal house of Pharaoh : ancient Egypt as a complex adaptative system, a trial formulation • The impact of raiding on settlement patterns in the Northern Valley of Oaxaca : an approaching using decision trees • The political impact of marriage in a virtual Polynesian society • Anti-chaos, common property, and the emergence of cooperation • Understanding Anasazi culture change through agent-based modeling • Be there then : a modeling approach to settlement determinants and spatial efficiency among late ancestral Pueblo populations of the Mesa Verde region, U.S. Southwest • Magical computer simulation of mesolithic foraging • Trajectories to complecity in artificial societies : rationality, belief, and emotions • Evolution of inference • The evolution of cooperation in an ecological context : an agent-based model • Nonlinear and synthetic models for primate societies • Putting social sciences together again : an introduction to the volumePublication: New York : Oxford University Press, 2000Description: 398 p.Availability:

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Comparative social evolution / ed. Dustin R. Ribenstein, Patrick AbbotPiece-Analytic Level: Social synthesis: oportunities for comparative social evolution • Sociality in lizards • Sociality in fishes • Sociality in birds • Sociality in non-primate mammals • Sociality in primates • Sociality in shrimps • Sociality in spiders • Sociality in aphids and thrips • Sociality in termites • Sociality in wasps • Sociality in bees • Sociality in ants • The evolution of social evolutionPublication: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017Description: 465 p.Availability:

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Animal social complexity : intelligence, culture, and individualized societies / Frans B. M. de Wall, Peter L. TyackPiece-Analytic Level: Discovering culture in birds : the role of learning and development • Do killer whales have culture? • Society and culture in the deep and open ocean : the sperm whale and other cetacians • Spontaneous use of tools by semifree-ranging capuchin monkeys • Ten dispatches from the chimpazee culture wars • Sex differences in termite fishing among gombe chimpanzees • Individuality and flexibility of cultural behavior patterns in chimpanzees • Movement imitation in monkeys • Koshima monkeys and Bossou chimpazees : long-term research on culture in nonhuman primates • Natural semanticity in wild primates • Dolphins communicate about individual-specific social relationships • Social and vocal complexity in Bats • Representational vocal signaling in the chimpanzee • Vocal communication in wild parrots • Emotional recognition by chimpazees • Laughter and smiling : the intertwining of nature and culture • Conflict resolution in the spotted hyena • Social syntax : the if-then structureof social problem solving • The structure of social knowledge in monkeys • Equivalence classification as an approach to social knowledge : from sea lions to simians • Sperm whale social structure : why it takes a village to raise a child • Is social stress a consequence of subordination or a cost of dominance? • Maternal rank inheritance in the spotted hyena • The social complexity of spotted hyenas • Levels and patterns in dolphin alliance formation • Coalitionary aggression in white-faced capuchins • Complex cooperation among tai chimpanzees • Sources of social complexity in the three elephant species • Dolphin social complexity : lessons from long-term study and life history • Sociality and disease risk : a comparative study of leukocyte counts in primates • Life history and cognitive evolution in primatesPublication: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2003Description: XIV, 616 p.Availability:

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Animal innovation / ed. Simon M. Reader, Kevin N. LalandPiece-Analytic Level: To innovate or not to innovate? that is the question • Human creativty : two Darwiniam analysis • Innovation and creativity in forest-living rehabilitant orang-utans • Innovation as a behavioural response to environmental challenges : a cost and benefit approach • Novelty in deceit • Conditions of innovative behavior in primates • Characteristics and propensities of marmosets and tamarins : implications for studies of inovation • The role of neophobia and neophilia in the development of innovative behavior of birds • Experimental studies of innovation in the Guppy • Social learning : promoter or inhibitor of innovation • Is innovation in bird song adaptative? • Environmental variability and primate behavioural flexibility • Behavioural innovation : a neglected issue in the ecological and evolutionary literature? • Positive and negative correlates of feeding innovations in birds : evidence for limited modularity • Animal innovation : an introductionPublication: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003Description: 344 p.Availability:

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Advances in the study of behavior / ed. Peter J. B. Slater, Jay S. Rosenblatt, Charles T. Snowdon et. alPublication: Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2004Description: XII, 503 p. : col., quadros, gráficosAvailability: :

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Advances in the study of behavior / Edited by Peter J. B. Slater, Jay S. Rosenblatt, Charles T. Snowdon, Timothy J. Roper, Marc NaguibPublication: Amsterdam : Academic Press, 2003Description: IX, 370 p.Availability:

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