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This book results from a symposium sponsored by the Program for Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The organizers of the symposium are the editors of this volume. Contributors focus on the current status of research on sociality and the evolution of behavior in nonhuman and human primates. Against the tendency of sociobiologists to emphasize the selfishness of the gene pool, the authors examine questions related to the evolution, cultural viability, and hormonal underpinnings of human sociality, and describe patterns of sociality among nonhuman primates for the light these may shed light on human social behavior.

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-This volume is a valuable resource for anthropologists interested in the origins of human social behavior and cooperation. This text provides a viewpoint that can potentially lead to expand interpretations for why humans have such long life spans.- --Corey S. Zolondek, Anthropology and Aging Quarterly -This timely and useful volume provides not only a reminder of the wealth of valuable information available about this genus, but also presents a tantalizing set of hypotheses, ideas, and predictions that can, perhaps in the near future, be tested on that rarest of zoological treasures: a new species from a well-studied taxon.- --William F. Zimmerman, The Quarterly Review of Biology

This volume is a valuable resource for anthropologists interested in the origins of human social behavior and cooperation. This text provides a viewpoint that can potentially lead to expand interpretations for why humans have such long life spans. --Corey S. Zolondek, Anthropology and Aging Quarterly This timely and useful volume provides not only a reminder of the wealth of valuable information available about this genus, but also presents a tantalizing set of hypotheses, ideas, and predictions that can, perhaps in the near future, be tested on that rarest of zoological treasures: a new species from a well-studied taxon. --William F. Zimmerman, The Quarterly Review of Biology

This volume is a valuable resource for anthropologists interested in the origins of human social behavior and cooperation. This text provides a viewpoint that can potentially lead to expand interpretations for why humans have such long life spans. <br>--Corey S. Zolondek, Anthropology and Aging Quarterly

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