Behavioral Flexibility in Primates - Causes and Consequences
von: Clara Jones
Springer-Verlag, 2006
ISBN: 9780387233277
Sprache: Englisch
184 Seiten, Download: 1466 KB
Format: PDF, auch als Online-Lesen
| Contents | 5 | ||
| Foreword | 9 | ||
| Preface | 14 | ||
| Acknowledgments | 21 | ||
| 1 Introduction to Intraindividual Variation of Primate Behavior | 25 | ||
| Introduction | 25 | ||
| The Costs and Bene.ts of Behavioral Flexibility | 29 | ||
| Components of Phenotypic Flexibility, Including Behavioral Flexibility | 31 | ||
| The Ecological Basis of Behavioral Flexibility | 33 | ||
| 2 The Costs and Benefits of Behavioral Flexibility to Inclusive Fitness: Dispersal as an Option in Heterogeneous Regimes | 41 | ||
| Introduction | 41 | ||
| Dispersal as Flexible Behavior | 42 | ||
| When to Disperse as an Assay for Demonstrating Behavioral Flexibility | 47 | ||
| Toward a New Perspective on Behavioral Flexibility | 49 | ||
| Why are There so Many Kinds of Behaviors? | 52 | ||
| Conclusions | 53 | ||
| 3 Primate Signatures and Behavioral Flexibility in Heterogeneous Regimes | 55 | ||
| Introduction | 55 | ||
| Learning, Environmental Heterogeneity, and Behavioral Flexibility | 56 | ||
| Fitness as a Fixed Budget of Time and Energy Generating Signatures of Primate Behavior: The Temporal Component | 57 | ||
| Social Parasitism as a Signature of Primates in Heterogeneous Regimes | 60 | ||
| Negative Reinforcement as a Mechanism Of Exploitation in Heterogeneous Regimes | 66 | ||
| Individuality as a Primate Signature Constraining the Evolution and Expression of Behavioral Flexibility and True Sociality | 67 | ||
| Conclusions | 69 | ||
| 4 Social Cognition and Behavioral Flexibility: Categorical Decision- Making as a Primate Signature | 71 | ||
| Introduction | 71 | ||
| Social Cognition as a Generator of Behavioral Flexibility | 71 | ||
| Competitive Behavior and Resource Dispersion Related to Social Cognition | 76 | ||
| Resolving Con.icts of Interest with Probabilistic Responses | 79 | ||
| Conclusions | 82 | ||
| 5 Female Primates as Energy- Maximizers in Heterogeneous Regimes | 85 | ||
| Introduction | 85 | ||
| Discrimination Abilities, Allocation Strategies, and Behavioral Flexibility of Female Primates | 86 | ||
| Relative Reproductive Value as a Determinant of Behavioral Flexibility | 88 | ||
| Alloparental Behaviors as an Example of the Flexibility of Responses by Female Primates | 94 | ||
| Life History Tactics and the Evolution of Behavioral Flexibility | 98 | ||
| Conclusions | 102 | ||
| 6 Male Primates: "Time- Minimizers" in Heterogeneous Regimes | 103 | ||
| Introduction | 103 | ||
| The Branch-Break Display of Male Mantled Howler Monkeys | 106 | ||
| Investigating Behavioral Flexibility in Male Mantled Howler Monkeys: Study Sites, Procedures, and De . nitions | 107 | ||
| How Does the Branch-Break Display Demonstrate Behavioral Flexibility? | 108 | ||
| Signaling Theory and Patterns of Branch-Breaking in Mantled Howler Monkeys | 111 | ||
| The In.uence of Females on Male Tactics and Strategies | 115 | ||
| Conclusions | 116 | ||
| 7 Intersexual Interactions in Heterogeneous Regimes: Potential Effects of Antagonistic Coevolution in Primate Groups | 117 | ||
| Introduction | 117 | ||
| Does Each Sex Favor Different Outcomes of Male – Female Interactions? | 120 | ||
| A General Formulation for Antagonistic Coevolution between Males and Females | 120 | ||
| The Extent and Limits of Extreme Selfishness: Forced Copulations by Males as an Indicator of Sexual Con . ict | 123 | ||
| Multiple Mating by Females as a Counterstrategy to Male Infanticide | 124 | ||
| Female Dominance in Primates: Counterstrategies that Benefit Females | 126 | ||
| Same Sex Partner Preference and Antagonistic Coevolution | 127 | ||
| Conclusions | 130 | ||
| 8 Sociosexual Organization and the Expression of Behavioral Flexibility | 133 | ||
| Introduction | 133 | ||
| Environmental and Phylogenetic Constraints on Behavioral Flexibility | 135 | ||
| Sociosexual Organization in Primates: An Attempt at Classi.cation | 139 | ||
| Conclusions | 144 | ||
| 9 Behavioral Flexibility: Interpretations and Prospects | 147 | ||
| Introduction | 147 | ||
| The Predictive Theory and Environmental Heterogeneity | 148 | ||
| What Factors Constrain the Evolution of True Social Behavior in Primates? | 152 | ||
| To what Degree Does the In.uence of Individuality Constrain the Evolution of Sociality in Humans? | 156 | ||
| How Important is the Accuracy of a Flexible Behavioral Response? | 157 | ||
| Toward an Uncertain Future: Behavioral Flexibility and the Conservation of Primate Biodiversity | 160 | ||
| Conclusions | 162 | ||
| Glossary | 163 | ||
| References | 169 | ||
| Index | 205 |