
Child Nurturance
Studies of Development in Nonhuman Primates
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 4. November 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIII, 274 pages
978-1-4613-3607-5 (ISBN)
Description
The underlying theme uniting the papers of this volume is the quest for a further understanding of human behavior. The similarities between the behaviors of other primates and humans have captivated us even before a science arose. But what is the justification for making such comparisons? Comparisons, like classifications, can be made on any basis whatever. The aim in making any scientific comparison is the same as doing a classification. That is, one attempts to make the comparison on a "natural" basis. Natural, in this case, means that the comparison reflects processes that occur in nature. The fundamental paradigm for making natural comparisons in biology is based on evolutionary theory. The evolutionary paradigm is inherently one of comparisons between and within species. Conversely, it is impossible to begin to make cross species comparisons without making, implicitly at least, evolutionary arguments. But evolution is a complex construct of theories (Lewis, 1980), and comparisons can be made out of different theoretical bases. F or the sake of this discussion we can combine varieties of sub-theories into two categories: those having to do with descent with modification, and those concerned with the mechanics of evolutionary change--notably natural selection.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1982
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XIII, 274 p.
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
508 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4613-3607-5 (9781461336075)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4613-3605-1
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Hiram E. Fitzgerald | John A. Mullins | Patricia Gage
Child Nurturance: 3
Studies of Development in Nonhuman Primates
Book
10/1982
Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
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Content
I: Malnutrition and Developmental Outcome.- Protein Deprivation and Offspring Behavior.- II: Parental and Other Social Influences on Primate Development.- Mother-Infant Relationships in Non-Human Primates.- Paternal Behavior in Primates.- Infant Separation in Monkeys: Studies on Social Figures Other than the Mother.- III: Contextual and Social Aspects of Language Development.- A Pragmatic Approach to Chimpanzee Language Studies.- Cultural Transmission of a Human Language in a Chimpanzee Mother-Infant Relationship.- IV: Biosocial Aspects of Behavioral Development.- Depression and Helplessness in Primates.- The Origins of Aggression.- Author Index.