Scott Creel

Christophe Boesch

Tetsuro Matsuzawa

Toshisada Nishida

Charles L. Nunn

Richard Connor

W.C. McGrew

Jack W. Bradbury

Christine Drea

Anne Engh

Laurence Frank

Karen I. Hallberg

Stephanie Jaffee

Sarah L. Mesnick

Hans Kummer

Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies

Animal Social Complexity

Patrick McNamara

Robert A. Barton

This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and biological anthropology and to biomedical researchers studying sleep medicine.

Phylogenetic and Functional Perspectives

Evolution of Sleep

Comparison is fundamental to evolutionary anthropology. When scientists study chimpanzee cognition, for example, they compare chimp performance on cognitive tasks to the performance of human children on the same tasks. And when new fossils are found, such as those of the tiny humans of Flores, scientists compare these remains to other fossils and contemporary humans. Comparison provides a way to draw general inferences about the evolution of traits and therefore has long been the cornerstone of efforts to understand biological and cultural diversity. Individual studies of fossilized remains, living species, or human populations are the essential units of analysis in a comparative study; bringing these elements into a broader comparative framework allows the puzzle pieces to fall into place, creating a means of testing adaptive hypotheses and generating new ones. With this book, Charles L. Nunn intends to ensure that evolutionary anthropologists and organismal biologists have the tools to realize the potential of comparative research. Nunn provides a wide-ranging investigation of the comparative foundations of evolutionary anthropology in past and present research, including studies of animal behavior, biodiversity, linguistic evolution, allometry, and cross-cultural variation. He also points the way to the future, exploring the new phylogeny-based comparative approaches and offering a how-to manual for scientists who wish to incorporate these new methods into their research.

The Comparative Approach in Evolutionary Anthropology and Biology

Peter M. Kappeler

The Sociality--health--fitness Nexus in Animal Societies

Charles L. Nunn

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