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

Publication year: 2006

ISBN: 978-0-387-33674-9

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This volume brings together current research on the behavior, ecology, reproduction, and life history - and the interrelations among these variables - of baboons of the genus Papio. Baboons, found throughout Africa and into Arabia, represent one of the best-known primate lineages, renowned for their ecological and behavioral flexibility and adaptability.


Subject: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Adaptation, behavior, development, evolution, ontogeny, primates