Caroline A Phillips
Biographic Data
| ID | 4009896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline A Phillips |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline A |
| FAMILY NAME | Phillips |
| SIGNATURE | PHILLIPS C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5768-2132 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Why women cheat: Testing evolutionary hypotheses for female infidelity in a multinational sample
While scholars largely agree men's infidelity evolved by increasing offspring quantity, the evolutionary drivers of women's infidelity remain debated. The “good genes” (dual mating strategy) hypothesis posits infidelity allows women to pair the preferred genes of an affair partner with the preferred investment of their primary partner (Gangstad & Thornhill, 1998). The mate-switching hypothesis instead argues infidelity helps women obtain a new ma…
Evolutionary Implications of Non-human Primate Diets
Extant non-human primates are our closest living relatives and knowledge of their diets serves as a focus for hypotheses about past diets. We now know that the diets of extant primates vary from almost total folivory to considerable faunivory. Subsistence strategies of extant primates and stable isotope ratio data constrain dietary scenarios for fossil primates, including hominins. Among extant primates, significant faunivory occurs only in speci…
Non-dietary analytical features of chimpanzee scats
Fecal carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis as an indicator of diet in Kanyawara chimpanzees, Kibale National Park, Uganda
Objectives The shorter‐term overview from feces provides scope to investigate dietary fluctuations. We assess the correlation of stable isotopic fecal values with recorded seasonal diet of 10 adult chimpanzees ( P. t. schweinfurthii ) of the Kanyawara community (Kibale National Park, Uganda) and whether fecal nitrogen levels (% N ) indicate a change in crude protein intake. Materials and Methods We recorded food eaten by each ape and collected bo…
Macroscopic inspection of ape feces: What's in a quantification method
Macroscopic inspection of feces has been used to investigate primate diet. The limitations of this method to identify food-items to species level have long been recognized, but ascertaining aspects of diet (e.g., folivory) are achievable by quantifying food-items in feces. Quantification methods applied include rating food-items using a scale of abundance, estimating their percentage volume, and weighing food-items. However, verification as to wh…
Chimpanzee diet: Phytolithic analysis of feces
Most primate populations remain unobservable; therefore, researchers depend on the analyses of indirect evidence encountered at a study-site in order to understand their behavioral ecology. Diet can be determined through the analyses of scats or feeding remains encountered on-site. This allows aspects of their dietary repertoire to be established, which has implications both for conservation efforts (by locating food resources), and for understan…
Experimental Primate Archaeology: Detecting Stone Handling by Japanese Macaques ( Macaca Fuscata )
Non-human primates using stones in nature provide a rare opportunity to compare directly the behaviour of use with the resulting lithic artifacts. Wild Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) customarily do “stone handling” (SH = spontaneous, solitary, non-instrumental and seemingly playful manipulation of stones). Ten populations of monkeys show at least 48 behavioral variants, 13 of which entail repeated stone-on-stone or stone-on-substrate contact …
Identifying Species in Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Feces: A Methodological Lost Cause
Standardised protocol for primate faecal analysis
Identifying Species in Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Feces: A Methodological Lost Cause
Experimental Primate Archaeology: Detecting Stone Handling by Japanese Macaques ( Macaca Fuscata )
Non-human primates using stones in nature provide a rare opportunity to compare directly the behaviour of use with the resulting lithic artifacts. Wild Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) customarily do “stone handling” (SH = spontaneous, solitary, non-instrumental and seemingly playful manipulation of stones). Ten populations of monkeys show at least 48 behavioral variants, 13 of which entail repeated stone-on-stone or stone-on-substrate contact …
Fecal carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis as an indicator of diet in Kanyawara chimpanzees, Kibale National Park, Uganda
Objectives The shorter‐term overview from feces provides scope to investigate dietary fluctuations. We assess the correlation of stable isotopic fecal values with recorded seasonal diet of 10 adult chimpanzees ( P. t. schweinfurthii ) of the Kanyawara community (Kibale National Park, Uganda) and whether fecal nitrogen levels (% N ) indicate a change in crude protein intake. Materials and Methods We recorded food eaten by each ape and collected bo…
Standardised protocol for primate faecal analysis
Identifying Species in Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Feces: A Methodological Lost Cause
Macroscopic inspection of ape feces: What's in a quantification method
Macroscopic inspection of feces has been used to investigate primate diet. The limitations of this method to identify food-items to species level have long been recognized, but ascertaining aspects of diet (e.g., folivory) are achievable by quantifying food-items in feces. Quantification methods applied include rating food-items using a scale of abundance, estimating their percentage volume, and weighing food-items. However, verification as to wh…
Chimpanzee diet: Phytolithic analysis of feces
Most primate populations remain unobservable; therefore, researchers depend on the analyses of indirect evidence encountered at a study-site in order to understand their behavioral ecology. Diet can be determined through the analyses of scats or feeding remains encountered on-site. This allows aspects of their dietary repertoire to be established, which has implications both for conservation efforts (by locating food resources), and for understan…
Experimental Primate Archaeology: Detecting Stone Handling by Japanese Macaques ( Macaca Fuscata )
Non-human primates using stones in nature provide a rare opportunity to compare directly the behaviour of use with the resulting lithic artifacts. Wild Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) customarily do “stone handling” (SH = spontaneous, solitary, non-instrumental and seemingly playful manipulation of stones). Ten populations of monkeys show at least 48 behavioral variants, 13 of which entail repeated stone-on-stone or stone-on-substrate contact …
Fecal carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis as an indicator of diet in Kanyawara chimpanzees, Kibale National Park, Uganda
Objectives The shorter‐term overview from feces provides scope to investigate dietary fluctuations. We assess the correlation of stable isotopic fecal values with recorded seasonal diet of 10 adult chimpanzees ( P. t. schweinfurthii ) of the Kanyawara community (Kibale National Park, Uganda) and whether fecal nitrogen levels (% N ) indicate a change in crude protein intake. Materials and Methods We recorded food eaten by each ape and collected bo…
Non-dietary analytical features of chimpanzee scats
Evolutionary Implications of Non-human Primate Diets
Extant non-human primates are our closest living relatives and knowledge of their diets serves as a focus for hypotheses about past diets. We now know that the diets of extant primates vary from almost total folivory to considerable faunivory. Subsistence strategies of extant primates and stable isotope ratio data constrain dietary scenarios for fossil primates, including hominins. Among extant primates, significant faunivory occurs only in speci…
Why women cheat: Testing evolutionary hypotheses for female infidelity in a multinational sample
While scholars largely agree men's infidelity evolved by increasing offspring quantity, the evolutionary drivers of women's infidelity remain debated. The “good genes” (dual mating strategy) hypothesis posits infidelity allows women to pair the preferred genes of an affair partner with the preferred investment of their primary partner (Gangstad & Thornhill, 1998). The mate-switching hypothesis instead argues infidelity helps women obtain a new ma…
Biology (9 works) · Primate Behavior and Ecology (8 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Feces (4 works) · National park (4 works) · Primate (4 works) · Zoology (4 works) · Animal ecology (3 works) · Evolutionary biology (3 works)