Linda marie fedigan biography books
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Primate Life Histories, Sex Roles, and Adaptability
Overview
- Editors:
- Urs Kalbitzer
Department of Anthropology and McGill School of Environment, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
- Katharine M. Jack
Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
- Covers a broad perspective on life-histories in primates and other mammals
- Contains chapters on new and exciting topics in primate feeding ecology including primate adaptations to changing environments, a currently urgent topic because of dramatic changes of their environments
- Combines ideas on biological concepts of sex roles in primates and sociological concepts of gender roles in the academic environment, an area that Linda Fedigan has pioneered
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Primate Paradigms
This critical review of behavior patterns in nonhuman primates is an excellent study of the importance of female roles in different social groups and their significance in the evolution of human social life.
"A book that properly illuminates in rich detail not only developmental and socioecological aspects of primate behavior but also how and why certain questions are asked. In addition, the book frequently focuses on insufficiently answered questions, especially those concerned with the evolution of primate sex differences. Fedigan’s book is unique . . . because it places primate adaptations and our explanation of those patterns in a larger intellectual framework that is easily and appropriately connected to many lines of research in different fields (sociology, psychology, anthropology, neurobiology, endocrinology, and biology)&#;and not in inconsequential ways, either."&#;James McKenna, American Journal of Primatology
"This is the feminist critique of theories of primate and human evolution."&#;John H. Cook, Nature
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The Santa Rosa Primate Inclusion Project
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