书目名称 | Primate Social Systems | 编辑 | Robin I. M. Dunbar | 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/756/755230/755230.mp4 | 丛书名称 | Studies in Behavioural Adaptation | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | This book grew from small beginnings as I began to find unexpected patterns emerging from the data in the literature. The more I thought about the way in which primate social systems worked, the more interesting things turned out to be. I am conscious that, at times, this has introduced a certain amount of complexity into the text. I make no apologies for that: what we are dealing with is a complex subject, the product of evolutionary forces interacting with very sophisticated minds. None the less, I have done my best to explain every thing as clearly as I can in order to make the book accessible to as wide an audience as possible. I have laid a heavy emphasis in this book on the use of simple graphical and mathematical models. Their sophistication, however, is not great and does not assume more than a knowledge of elementary probability theory. Since their role will inevitably be misunderstood, I take this opportunity to stress that their function is essentially heuristic rather than explanatory: they are designed to focus our attention on the key issues so as to point out the directions for further research. A model is only as good as the questions it prompts us to ask. For thos | 出版日期 | Book 1988 | 关键词 | behavior; complexity; ecology; evolution; mechanics; primates | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6694-2 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4684-6696-6 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4684-6694-2 | copyright | Robin Dunbar 1988 |
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