Missing Lemur Link An Ancestral Step Evolution Human Behaviour… 9781107016088 LN

The Missing Lemur LinkAn Ancestral Step in the Evolution of Human Behaviour\nAuthor(s): Ivan Norscia, Elisabetta Palagi, Alison Jolly, Ian Tatterall, Michael Huffman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107016088, 978-1107016088\nSynopsis\nLemurs share a common distant ancestor with humans. Following their own evolutionary pathway, lemurs provide the ideal model to shed light on the behavioural traits of primates including conflict management, communication strategies and society building and how these aspects of social living relate to those found in the anthropoid primates. Adopting a comparative approach throughout, lemur behaviour is cross-examined with that of monkeys, apes and humans. This book reviews and expands upon the newest fields of research in lemur behavioural biology, including recent analytical approaches that have so far been limited to studies of haplorrhine primates. Different m.