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Life and Death in the Gombe Chimpanzees: Skeletal analysis as an Insight into Life History

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This ebook Life and Death in the Gombe Chimpanzees: Skeletal analysis as an Insight into Life History 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 analysts who have benefited from published data on a smaller, earlier skeletal sample from Gombe. The Gombe skeletal collection is the largest collection of wild chimpanzees with known life histories in existence…

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This ebook Life and Death in the Gombe Chimpanzees: Skeletal analysis as an Insight into Life History 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 analysts who have benefited from published data on a smaller, earlier skeletal sample from Gombe. The Gombe skeletal collection is the largest collection of wild chimpanzees with known life histories in existence, and this work significantly expands the skeletal sample from this long-term research site (49 chimpanzees). The ebook explores topics of general interest to skeletal analysts such as demographic patterns, which injuries leave signs on the skeleton, and rates of healing, and discusses both qualitative and quantitative analysis of the patterning of lesions. 189 p.

Series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects

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Authors expertises affiliations

  • Claire A. Kirchhoff. BA, MA, PhD in Anthropology,. Currently Professor of Gross Anatomy; she also undertakes scholarship on primate skeletal analysis. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI (USA).
  • Publication date (digital version): 2019-06 – Springer.

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26 December 2023

Kirchhoff’s narrative of individual cases provides something of a memorial. Her thorough documentation of the traumatic history of individual lives is essential for understanding selection pressures impinging on the Gombe chimpanzees and, perhaps, the entire species.

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