April 28, 2008
Wallace, R.B. 2008. Towing the party line: Territoriality, risky boundaries, and male group size in spider monkey fission-fusion societies.  Am. J. Primatol., 70:271-281.

April 14, 2008
Charpentier, M.J.E., Tung, J., Altmann, J. & Alberts, S.C. 2008. Age at maturity in wild baboons: Genetic, environmental and demographic influences.  Mol. Ecol. [online preprint]

March 24, 2008
Lappan, S. 2008. Male care of infants in a siamang (Symphalangus syndactylus) population including socially monogamous and polyandrous groups.  Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 62:1307-1317.

March 10, 2008
Schino, G. & Aureli, F. 2007. Grooming reciprocation among female primates: A meta-analysis. Biology Letters.

Feb 18, 2008
Burkart, J.M., Fehr, E., Efferson, C. and van Schaik, C.P. 2007.  Other-regarding preferences in a non-human primate: Common marmosets provision food altruistically.  Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 104:19762-19766.

Dec 13, 2007
No meeting since Marc & Ryne in Germany at Freilandtage.

Nov 29, 2007
No reading.  Marc Shur will present his oral paper: "Glucocorticoid and Testosterone Levels Associated with Friendship Formation in Wild Olive Baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis)" for the 6th Freilandtage conference in Göttingen.

Nov 15, 2007
Marlowe, F.W.  2007.  Hunting and gathering: The human sexual division of foraging labor.  Cross-Cultural Research, 41:170-195.
Marlowe, F.  2003.  A critical period for provisioning by Hadza men: Implications for pair bonding.  Evol. Hum. Behav., 24:217-229.

Nov 1, 2007
Quinlan, R.J. & Quinlan, M.B.  2007.  Evolutionary ecology of human pair-bonds: Cross-cultural tests of alternative hypotheses.  Cross-Cultural Research, 41:149-169.

October 15, 2007
This meeting will be a discussion of Lisa Danish's developing dissertation research plans.   She's suggested the following two readings to provide theoretical background.  And I emailed you a document written by Lisa that provides background on the behavioral phenomenon she's interested in studying.

Gross, M.R.  1996.  Alternative reproductive strategies and tactics: Diversity within sexes.  Trends. Ecol. Evol., 11:92-98 (particulary the section dealing conditional strategies).

Brockmann, H.J.  2001.  The evolution of alternative strategeis and tactics.  Adv. Stud. Behav., 30:1-51.


May 2, 2007
Manson, J.H.  1999.  Infant handling in wild Cebus capucinus: Testing bonds between females?  Anim. Behav., 57:911-921.

April 18, 2007
Newton-Fisher, N.E.  2006.  Female coalitions against male aggression in wild chimpanzees of the Budongo Forest.  Int. J. Primatol., 27:1589-1599.

April 4, 2007
Barrett, L., Henzi, P. & Rendall, D.  2007.  Social brains, simple minds: Does social complexity really require cognitive complexity?  Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B, 362:561-575.

March 21, 2007
Pruetz, J.D. & Bertolani, P.  2007.  Savanna chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus, hunt with tools.  Cur. Biol., 17:1-6.
Morgan, B.J. & Abwe, E.E.  2006.  Chimpanzees use stone hammers in Cameroon.  Cur. Biol., 16:R632-R633.
Wrangham, R.W.  2006.  Chimpanzees: The culture-zone concept becomes untidy.  Cur. Biol., 16:R634-R635.

March 7, 2007
No meeting due to annual reviews.

February 21, 2007
Janmaat, K.R.L., Byrne, R.W. & Zuberbühler, K.  2006.  Primates take weather into account when searching for fruits.  Cur. Biol., 16:1232-1237.

February 7, 2007
Bercovitch, F.B.  1995.  Female cooperation, consortship maintenance, and male mating success in savanna baboons.  Anim. Behav., 50:137-149.

Riley, E.P.  2006.  Ethnoprimatology: Toward reconciliation of biological and cultural anthropoogy.  Ecol. Environ. Anthropol., 2:75-86

December 11, 2006
Gesquiere, L.R., Wango, E.O., Alberts, S.C. & Altmann, J.  in press.  Mechanisms of sexual selection: Sexual swellings and estrogen concentrations as fertility indicators and cues for male consort decisions in wild baboons.  Horm. Behav., in press.

December 4, 2006