The question as to why primates have evolved unusually large brains has received much
attention, with many alternative proposals all supported by evidence. We review the main …

Compared to most other mammals and birds, anthropoid primates have unusually complex
societies characterised by bonded social groups. Among primates, this effect is …

Conventional approaches to population biology emphasise the roles of climatic conditions,
nutrient flow and predation as constraints on population dynamics. We argue here that this …

Fission–fusion social systems, in which members of a social community form frequently
changing subgroups, occur in a number of mammalian taxa. Such systems are assumed to …

Time constraints can limit an animal's potential to survive in a given habitat and the
maximum size of its group. Many studies have, therefore, investigated the ecological …

Aim To examine and visualize clines in size and shape of Cercopithecus aethiops Linneus,
1758 (Primate, Cercopithecidae) skulls, and to investigate environmental factors which …

Primate socioecological studies have attempted to derive general frameworks using the
average behavioural traits of species or genera to place them into categories. However, with …

Several recent studies have documented considerable intraspecific and intrapopulation
ecological variation in primates. However, we generally lack an understanding of how such …

The course of hominin evolution has involved successive migrations towards higher
absolute latitudes over the past three million years. Poorer habitat quality further from the …

The influence of diet and food distribution on the socioecology of group-living species has
long been debated, particularly for primates. It has typically been assumed that folivorous …