Life and Death in the Gombe Chimpanzees Skeletal Analysis as an Insight into Life History /

• Main Author: Kirchhoff, Claire A. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects,
• Subjects: Animal anatomy.; Medical anthropology.; Animal physiology.; Veterinary medicine.; Animal ecology.; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology.; Medical Anthropology.; Animal Physiology.; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science.; Animal Ecology.

This book addresses how skeletons can inform us about behavior by describing skeletal lesions in the Gombe chimpanzees, relating them to known life histories whenever possible, and analyzing demographic patterns in the sample. This is of particular interest to both primatologists and skeletal analys...