Authors: Hans Kummer
ISBN-13: 9780202309040, ISBN-10: 0202309045
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Date Published: December 2006
Edition: Reprint
In this book, Hans Kummer, one of the world's leading primate ethologists, examines the patterns of social interaction among primates. He examines this social behavior from the fundamentally biological viewpoint of evolutionary adaptation as part of the survival mechanisms for the species. Recognizing that all activity is constituted in part of genetic programming and in part of adaptive behavior, he explores the borderline area between the genetic and the "cultural." By use of astute observation and clever experimentation, he shows that many aspects of social behavior are inherited, and differentially inherited among various primate groups.