Macaque Societies - A Model for the Study of Social Organization

434 pp, 25 diags, 19 illus, 2 col plates, 20 tabs  ISBN 0521818478      £75.00

Animal and human societies are multifaceted. In order to understand how they have evolved, it is necessary to investigate each of the constituent facets including individual abilities and personalities, life-history traits, mating systems, demographic dynamics, gene flows, social relationships, ecology and phylogeny. By exploring the nature and evolution of macaque social organisation, this book develops our knowledge of the rise of societies and their transformation during the course of evolution. Macaques are the most comprehensively studied of all monkey groups, and the 20 known species feature a broad diversity in their social relationships making them a particularly good group for exploring the evolution of societies. This book will be of primary interest to those studying animal behaviour and primatology, but will also be useful to those involved in the study of human societies.

Contents

Introduction
1 Why macaque societies? 3
Bernard Thierry, Mewa Singh, and Werner Kaumanns

Part I Individual attributes

2 Personality factors between and within species 13
John P. Capitanio
Box 2 Social intelligence 33
Josep Call

3 The role of emotions in social relationships 38
Filippo Aureli and Gabriele Schino
Box 3 Power and communication 56
Signe Preuschoft

4 Reproductive life history 61
Fred Bercovitch and Nancy Harvey
Box 4 Life-history traits: ecological adaptations or phylogenetic relics? 80
Mewa Singh and Anindya Sinha

Part II Demography and reproductive systems

5 Demography: a window to social evolution 87
Wolfgang Dittus
Box 5 Patterns of group fission 112
Kyoko Okamoto

6 Gene flow, dispersal patterns, and social organization 117
Hélène Gachot-Neveu and Nelly Ménard
Box 6 Dominance and paternity 131
Andreas Paul

7 Mating systems 135
Joseph Soltis
Box 7 Homosexual behavior 151
Paul L. Vasey

Part III Social relationships and networks

8 Dominance style, social power, and conflict management: a conceptual framework 157
Jessica C. Flack and Frans B. M. de Waal
Box 8 Social space and degrees of freedom 182
Marina Butovskaya

9 How kinship generates dominance structures: a comparative perspective 186
Bernard Chapais
Box 9 Inter-group relationships 204
Matthew A. Cooper

10 Intergenerational transmission of behavior 209
Christophe Chauvin and Carol M. Berman
Box 10 Maternal behavior, infant handling, and socialization 231
Dario Maestripieri

Part IV External and internal constraints

11 Do ecological factors explain variation in social organization? 237
Nelly Ménard
Box 11 Intraspecific variation: implications for interspecific comparisons 262
David A. Hill

12 Social epigenesis 267
Bernard Thierry
Box 12 The role of contingency in evolution 290
Christophe Abegg

13 The use of artificial-life models for the study of social organization 295
Charlotte K. Hemelrijk
Box 13 Proximate behaviors and natural selection 313
William A. Mason

Part V An outside viewpoint

14 An anthropologist among macaques 321
Maurice Godelier
Box 14 Do macaque species have a future? 328
Yasuyuki Muroyama and Ardith A. Eudey

Conclusion
15 Toward integrating the multiple dimensions of societies 335
Bernard Thierry, Mewa Singh, and Werner Kaumanns

References 341
Index 414

The color plates are situated between pages 5 and 6.