The Evolutionary Past and the Research Future: Environmental Variation and Life History Flexibility in a Primate Lineage [chapter]

Susan C. Alberts, Jeanne Altmann
Reproduction and Fitness in Baboons: Behavioral, Ecological, and Life History Perspectives  
CHAPTER SUMMARY The chapters in this volume demonstrate that baboons (genus Papio) are a diverse and flexible group that occupies a wide range of habitats. Further, the habitats occupied by baboons are characterized by frequent short-term environmental change (particularly seasonal change) and, for at least some populations, striking long-term change as well. Some of the environmental change is relatively predictable but some is highly unpredictable. What is the relationship between the
more » ... y we observe in baboon life history and behavior and the variability the baboons experience in their physical and social
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