Reproduction and Fitness in Baboons: Behavioral, Ecological, and Life History Perspectives

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Perspectives on Reproduction and Life History in Baboons

   1. Perspectives on Reproduction and Life History in Baboons

      • Larissa Swedell, Steven R. Leigh

      Pages 1-15

3. Reproductive Behavior and Mating Strategies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Infant Mortality, Paternity Certainty, and Female Reproductive Strategies in Hamadryas Baboons

      • Larissa Swedell, Julian Saunders

      Pages 19-51

   3. Female Behavioral Strategies of Hybrid Baboons in the Awash National Park, Ethiopia

      • Jacinta C. Beehner, Thore J. Bergman

      Pages 53-79

   4. Hybrid Baboons and the Origins of the Hamadryas Male Reproductive Strategy

      • Thore J. Bergman

      Pages 81-103

   5. The Social and Ecological Flexibility of Guinea Baboons: Implications for Guinea Baboon Social Organization and Male Strategies

      • Anh Galat-Luong, Gérard Galat, Suzanne Hagell

      Pages 105-121

   6. Social Organization, Reproductive Systems, and Mediation of Baboon Endogenous Virus (BaEV) Copy Number in Gelada, Hamadryas, and Other Papio Baboons

      • Monica Uddin, Jane E. Phillips-Conroy, Clifford J. Jolly

      Pages 123-143

4. Life History, Development, and Parenting Strategies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. Reproduction, Mortality, and Female Reproductive Success in Chacma Baboons of the Okavango Delta, Botswana

      • Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth, Julia Fischer, Jacinta C. Beehner, Thore J. Bergman, Sara E. Johnson et al.

      Pages 147-176

   3. Maternal Characteristics and Offspring Growth in Chacma Baboons: A Life History Perspective

      • Sara E. Johnson

      Pages 177-197

   4. Whose Life Is It Anyway? Maternal Investment, Developmental Trajectories, and Life History Strategies in Baboons

      • Louise Barrett, S. Peter Henzi, John E. Lycett

      Pages 199-224

   5. Ontogeny, Life History, and Maternal Investment in Baboons

      • Steven R. Leigh, Robin M. Bernstein

      Pages 225-255

   6. Testicular Size, Developmental Trajectories, and Male Life History Strategies in Four Baboon Taxa

      • Clifford J. Jolly, Jane E. Phillips-Conroy

      Pages 257-275

   7. The Evolutionary Past and the Research Future: Environmental Variation and Life History Flexibility in a Primate Lineage

      • Susan C. Alberts, Jeanne Altmann

      Pages 277-303

5. Back Matter

   Pages 305-322

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The editors will address the questions of life history and reproduction by attempting to isolate the various components of reproductive success and fitness in baboons. This requires assembling research interests in morphology, behavior, ecology, and endocrinology of the five subspecies of Papio baboons. By synthesizing studies of reproduction, life history, growth, parenting, ecology, mate choice, and mating success, this volume will shed light on general features of life history traits and reproductive strategies that have made baboons successful. These findings have broad applications to understanding the evolution of complex life history adaptations, such as those characteristic of other primates, and humans in particular. Many of the top researchers on the field are contributing to this volume.

• Adaptation
• behavior
• development
• evolution
• ontogeny
• primates

From the reviews:

"This book is generally successful in its goals, and lives up to its title, by compiling a good amount of recent research on reproductive behavior and life history in baboons, and their impact on reproductive success. While this book will clearly be of interest to graduate students and professionals engaged in social and ecological research on baboons, it would also be of considerable interest to students of evolutionary theory … ." (Stephen R. Frost, Journal of Mammalian Evolution, Vol. 15, 2008)

• Department of Anthropology, Queens College-CUNY, Flushing, USA

  Larissa Swedell

• Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

  Steven R. Leigh

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