Understanding Behavior: What Primate Studies Tell Us about Human Behavior

by James D. Loy

Scientific studies of monkeys, apes, and other nonhuman primates began just over 50 years ago. Since then tens of thousands of hours of observation have been made on these animals in the wild and in captivity. The chief rationale for scientific primatology has always been the belief that
mportant insights into human behavior and society could be gained through studies of our evolutionary kin. This book reviews what we have learned. Distinguished...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195060202
• ISBN13: 9780195060201
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.6"