Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 Of Genes and Apes: Chimpanzee Social Organization and Reproduction 9
5. 2 Apes from Venus: Bonobos and Human Social Evolution 39
6. 3 Beyond the Apes: Reasons to Consider the Entire Primate Order 69
7. 4 The Ape’s Gift: Meat-eating, Meat-sharing, and Human Evolution 95
8. 5 Out of the Pan, Into the Fire: How Our Ancestors’ Evolution Depended on What They Ate 119
9. 6 Social and Technical Forms of Primate Intelligence 145
10. 7 Brains on Two Legs: Group Size and the Evolution of Intelligence 173
11. 8 From Primate Communication to Human Language 193
12. 9 The Nature of Culture: Prospects and Pitfalls of Cultural Primatology 229
13. Notes 257
14. Bibliography 277
15. Contributors 301
16. Index 303