LIFE HISTORY VARIATION IN PRIMATES

Dental development in Megaladapis edwardsi (Primates, Lemuriformes): implications for understanding life history variation in subfossil lemurs.

Teeth grow incrementally and preserve within them a record of that incremental growth in the form of microscopic growth lines. Studying dental development in extinct and extant primates, and its relationship to adult brain and body size as well as other life history and ecological parameters (e.g., diet, somatic growth rates, gestation length, age at weaning), holds the potential to yield unpar...

Distribution, ecology, life history, genetic variation, and risk of extinction of nonhuman primates from Costa Rica.

We examined the association between geographic distribution, ecological traits, life history, genetic diversity, and risk of extinction in nonhuman primate species from Costa Rica. All of the current nonhuman primate species from Costa Rica are included in the study; spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi), howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata), capuchins (Cebus capucinus), and squirrel monkeys (Saimir...

Dental Development as a Measure of Life History in Primates.

Life-history Variation in Lacertid Lizards

Bauwens, D.: Life-history variation in lacertid lizards. Nat. Croat., Vol. 8, No. 3., 239–252, 1999, Zagreb. The life history of an organism is the combination of age-specific survival probabilities and fecundities it displays in its natural environment. Hence, an organism's life history is characterised by its age and size at maturity, frequency of reproduction, clutch or litter size, size of ...

Life-history correlates of enamel microstructure in cebidae (Platyrrhini, Primates).

Previous studies have examined tooth eruption as it relates intrinsically to body mass, brain mass, and other life history variables, and extrinsically to ecological factors (e.g., age at foraging independence, environmental risk aversion, and maternal investment). Different models have been explored wherein each of these variables impacts ontogeny. However, anthropoid and strepsirhine primates...