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- Covers the mechanisms, function, and evolution of primate development from conception through pregnancyand lactation into dependence
- Provides exposure to a wide range of methodological and theoretical perspectives on developmental trajectories
- Models how researchers might productively integrate these different perspectives into their own work
Part of the book series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects (DIPR, volume 37)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Conception and Pregnancy
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CONCEPTION & PREGNANCY
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From Pre- to Post-natal Life
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FROM PRE- TO POST-NATAL LIFE
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Milk: Complete Nutrition for the Infant
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MILK: COMPLETE NUTRITION FOR THE INFANT
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Mothers and Infants: The First Social Relationship
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MOTHERS AND INFANTS: THE FIRST SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP
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The Expanding Social Network
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About this book
The ontogeny of each individual contributes to the physical, physiological, cognitive, neurobiological, and behavioral capacity to manage the complex social relationships and diverse foraging tasks that characterize the primate order. For these reasons Building Babies explores the dynamic multigenerational processes of primate development. The book is organized thematically along the developmental trajectory:conception, pregnancy, lactation, the mother-infant dyad, broader social relationships, and transitions to independence. In this volume, the authors showcase the myriad approaches to understanding primate developmental trajectories from both proximate and ultimate perspectives. These collected chapters provide insights from experimental manipulations in captive settings to long-term observations of wild-living populations and consider levels of analysis from molecule to organism to social group to taxon. Strepsirrhines, New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, apes, and humans are all well-represented. Contributions by anthropologists, microbiologists, psychologists, population geneticists, and other primate experts provide Building Babies a uniquely diverse voice.
Building Babies features multi- and trans-disciplinary research approaches to primate developmental trajectories and is particularly useful for researchers and instructors in anthropology, animal behavior, psychology, and evolutionary biology. This book also serves as a supplement to upper-level undergraduate courses or graduate seminars on primate life history and development. In these contexts, the book provides exposure to a wide range of methodological and theoretical perspectives on developmental trajectories and models how researchers might productively integrate such approaches into their own work.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The volume contains an impressive collection of contributions by over 30 authors. … It is a book that will be of great value to a wide range of researchers and students in primatology, reproductive physiology, behavior, and evolutionary biology in general. The concluding chapter by Robert D. Martin is a real gem. … He identifies a number of paradoxes and unresolved issues. This final chapter is both an excellent place to begin reading Building babies, and a starting point for future research on the topic.” (John G. Fleagle, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 88 (2), June, 2013)
“This exciting collection brings multiple perspectives to the challenge of understanding human and nonhuman primate development. … The importance of early life experiences and social relationships in shaping primate development and the explanatory power of an evolutionary perspective … are themes that run through the book. … Chapters draw on data from laboratory investigations, captive studies, and/or research on wild-living populations and highlight the insights that are gained when diverse approaches are used. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (S. Stinson, Choice, Vol. 50 (7), March, 2013)Editors and Affiliations
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, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
Kathryn B.H. Clancy
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, Department of HUman Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Katie Hinde
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, Comparative Primate Biology Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
Julienne N. Rutherford
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Building Babies
Book Subtitle: Primate Development in Proximate and Ultimate Perspective
Editors: Kathryn B.H. Clancy, Katie Hinde, Julienne N. Rutherford
Series Title: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4060-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-4059-8Published: 26 August 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9032-7Published: 19 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-4060-4Published: 27 August 2012
Series ISSN: 1574-3489
Series E-ISSN: 1574-3497
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 534
Topics: Developmental Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Animal Ecology, Animal Physiology, Plant Sciences