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Reconstructing Social Behavior from Dimorphism in the Fossil Record

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Reconstructing Behavior in the Primate Fossil Record

Part of the book series: Advances in Primatology ((AIPR))

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The social behavior of extinct species has long been a subject for speculation. Group size and composition, mating systems, territoriality, resource defense, predator defense, cooperation, and competition, among others, have all been inferred for extinct taxa (e.g., Aiello and Dunbar, 1993; Blumenberg, 1981, 1984; Fleagle et al.1980; Gingerich, 1981, 1995; Kay, 1982; Kay et al.1997; Krishtalka et al.1991; Lovejoy, 1981; McHenry 1991, 1992, 1994a,b; Moore, 1997; Plavcan and van Schaik, 1997a; Simons and Rasmussen, 1996; Simons et al.1999; Wrangham, 1987; Zihlman, 1997— see chapter by Nunn and van Schaik). Such characters are important for painting a history of the evolution and diversification of lineages, and they occasionally feature as key components of models for primate social evolution. There is an especially rich literature speculating on the evolution of human social behavior (e.g., Kinzey, 1987). The purpose of this chapter is to evaluate how social behavior can (or cannot) be inferred in extinct primates on the basis of remains preserved in the fossil record.

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    J. Michael Plavcan

  2. Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

    Richard F. Kay  & Carel P. van Schaik  & 

  3. Department of Anatomical Sciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, USA

    William L. Jungers

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Plavcan, J.M. (2002). Reconstructing Social Behavior from Dimorphism in the Fossil Record. In: Plavcan, J.M., Kay, R.F., Jungers, W.L., van Schaik, C.P. (eds) Reconstructing Behavior in the Primate Fossil Record. Advances in Primatology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1343-8_8

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