Infectious Diseases In Primatesbehavior Ecology And Evolution

Download or read book Infectious Diseases in Primates written by Charles Nunn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title includes the following features: The first book to synthesiseand integrate the previously disparate areas of primate socioecology, parasitefunctional categories, host defences, and theoretical models of disease spread.; Organizes hypotheses according to parasite traits such as transmission mode,host specificity and virulence.; Develops a new co-evolutionary framework forinvestigating parasites and primate social evolution at empirical andtheoretical scales.; Ideal graduate seminar course material.