The Pygmy Chimpanzee Evolutionary Biology and Behavior
Historical Remarks Bearing on the Discovery of Pan paniscus Whether by accident or by design, it was most fortunate that Robert M. Yerkes, the dean of American primatologists, should have been the first scientist to describe the characteristics of a pygmy chimpanzee, which he acquired in August 1923...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1984, 1984
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1984 |
| Series: | Evolutionary Biology
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I. Molecular Biology, Systematics, and Morphology
- 1 The Tervuren Museum and the Pygmy Chimpanzee
- 2 Blood Groups of Pygmy and Common Chimpanzees: A Comparative Study
- 3 Pygmy Chimpanzee Systematics: A Molecular Perspective
- 4 A Measure of Basicranial Flexion in Pan paniscus, the Pygmy Chimpanzee
- 5 The Dentition of the Pygmy Chimpanzee, Pan paniscus
- 6 An Allometric Perspective on the Morphological and Evolutionary Relationships between Pygmy (Pan paniscus) and Common (Pan troglodytes) Chimpanzees
- 7 Body Size and Skeletal Allometry in African Apes
- 8 Body Build and Tissue Composition in Pan paniscus and Pan troglodytes, with Comparisons to Other Hominoids
- 9 The Common Ancestor: A Study of the Postcranium of Pan paniscus, Australopithecus, and Other Hominoids
- II. Behavior of Pan paniscus
- 10 Feeding Ecology of the Pygmy Chimpanzees (Pan paniscus) of Wamba
- 11 Feeding Ecology of Pan paniscus in the Lomako Forest, Zaire
- 12 Interaction over Food among Pygmy Chimpanzees
- 13 Social Organization of Pan paniscus in the Lomako Forest, Zaire
- 14 Sexual Behavior of Pan paniscus under Natural Conditions in the Lomako Forest, Equateur, Zaire
- 15 The Locomotor Behavior of Pan paniscus in the Lomako Forest
- 16 Pan paniscus and Pan troglodytes: Contrasts in Preverbal Communicative Competence
- 17 Will the Pygmy Chimpanzee Be Threatened with Extinction as Are the Elephant and the White Rhinoceros in Zaire?
- Author Index