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Baboon Perspectives on Early Human Ancestors

One Approach to Reconstructing Early Hominin Ecology and Behavior

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Authors:
  1. Glenn E. King

    1. Department of History and Anthropology, Monmouth University, FULTON, USA

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  • Synthesizes rapidly expanding knowledge about the behavior and ecology of Papio baboons
  • Provides a reference for any scholars or students interested in the evolution of human behavior
  • Responds to renewed interest in Papio baboons as models for early hominin behavior

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Baboon Perspectives on Early Human Ancestors brings together the most recent information on the behavior and ecology of Papio baboons and early hominins. Building on a long tradition and integrating recent developments, it discusses the ways that baboon behavior can enhance our understanding of our early ancestors. This approach augments interpretation of the archeological record and provides hypotheses for the gaps in the record and for the millions of years before the record began. Baboon behavior complements the widely used chimpanzee models, but also generates competing hypotheses. Among the many topics covered in the book are foraging and predator defense; multi-level societies and male-female relationships; social and ecological cognition; and communication and the roots of language.

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. An Introduction to Early Hominins and Baboons

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    Pages 1-27
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  3. Why Compare Early Hominins to Baboons?

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    Pages 29-46
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  4. Conceptual Frameworks and Criticisms

    • Glenn E. King
    Pages 47-62
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  5. Subsistence and Stress

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    Pages 63-83
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  6. Animal Foods and the Origins of Meat Eating

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    Pages 85-99
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  7. Predation on Hominins

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    Pages 101-123
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  8. Social Organization and Male–Male Relationships

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    Pages 125-146
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  9. Male–Female Relationships

    • Glenn E. King
    Pages 147-167
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  10. Female–Female Relationships

    • Glenn E. King
    Pages 169-186
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  11. Nonlinguistic Communication

    • Glenn E. King
    Pages 187-202
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  12. Language Origins

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    Pages 203-222
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  13. Cognition

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    Pages 223-240
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  14. Social Cognition

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    Pages 241-259
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  15. Back Matter

    Pages 261-275
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of History and Anthropology, Monmouth University, FULTON, USA

    Glenn E. King

About the author

Dr. King was trained in anthropology at Cornell and UCLA and in primatology with Sherwood Washburn at UC Berkeley. He taught anthropology and primatology at Monmouth University in New Jersey and is now Professor Emeritus. His research includes close observation of free-ranging olive baboons in Tanzania and pursuit of uncooperative chacma baboons in South Africa. Previously he studied captive chimpanzees at Holloman AFB; and hamadryas baboons, geladas, and mandrills in the Los Angeles Zoo. Dr. King’s primate behavior text (Routledge 2016) emphasizes the significance of primates in general for understanding the evolution of human behavior. His most recent publications appeared in the Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Baboon Perspectives on Early Human Ancestors

  • Book Subtitle: One Approach to Reconstructing Early Hominin Ecology and Behavior

  • Authors: Glenn E. King

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36769-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36768-7Published: 05 September 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36771-7Due: 19 September 2025

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-36769-4Published: 04 September 2024

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 275

  • Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Anthropology, Zoology, Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science, Ecology, Biological Psychology

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