Stuart A Altmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 80899 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stuart A Altmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stuart A |
| FAMILY NAME | Altmann |
| SIGNATURE | ALTMANN S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Fallback foods, eclectic omnivores, and the packaging problem
For omnivorous primates, as for other selective omnivores, the array of potential foods in their home ranges present a twofold problem: not all nutrients are present in any food in the requisite amounts or proportions and not all toxins and other costs are absent. Costs and benefits are inextricably linked. This so‐called packaging problem is particularly acute during periods, often seasonal, when the benefit‐to‐cost ratios of available foods are…
Body size and fatness of free‐living baboons reflect food availability and activity levels
We used morphometric techniques and isotope‐labeled water to investigate the influence of abundant, accessible food and resultant low activity levels on body size and fatness in free‐living adolescent and adult baboons as compared to animals in the same population that experienced more typical, wild‐feeding conditions. Females that had access to abundant food from a nearby garbage dump averaged 16.7 kg body mass, 50% more than their wild‐feeding …
Demography of Amboseli baboons, 1963–1983
Repeated censuses of a population of yellow baboons ( Papio cynocephalus ) in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, revealed a decrease from over 2,500 animals in 1963–1964 to 123 individuals in 1979, or from a density of about 73 to 1.8 baboons per km 2 over a 15‐year period. Median group size decreased from 43 in 1964 to 27 in 1979. The largest and smallest groups declined the most; groups near the median have maintained fairly stable size and age dis…
More on Hominid Diet Before Fire
Physical maturation and age estimates of yellow baboons, Papio cynocephalus , in Amboseli National Park, Kenya
In a longitudinal study of individually identified wild baboons in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, we collected data on physical development and reproductive maturation. Confirming and extending our earlier results, we demonstrated that the ratio of ages at which developmental milestones occur in the field as compared to those under extensive provisioning or in captivity were approximately 5:3. The age range for some developmental milestones was q…
Incest Avoidance as a Function of Environment and Heredity [and Comments and Reply]
Although it has repeatedly been demonstrated that behavior is best understood as a function of the interrelatedness of nature and nurture, many social scientists persist in posing these determinants adversatively and then contend that genes and biology are, at best, minor determinants of behavior. Analysis in incest avoidance illustrates the inadequacy of efforts to reduce to irrelevance genetic determinants. Man and many other species exhibit st…
Kin Selection in the Japanese Monkey
Life history of yellow baboons
Baboons, Space, Time, and Energy
How are social organization and ecology related to each other? Yellow baboons, hamadryas baboons, and gelada monkeys are all large, terrestrial African primates, but they have three different patterns of social organization, and they live in three, markedly different habitats: savannah, steppe-desert, and alpine heather-meadowland, respectively. An attempt is made to provide testable hypotheses and heuristic principles that can relate these two c…
Baboon ecology.
Estimating rates of behavior from Hansen frequencies
Physical Anthropology
A Field Study of the Sociobiology of Rhesus Monkeys, Macaca Mulatta
Fallback foods, eclectic omnivores, and the packaging problem
For omnivorous primates, as for other selective omnivores, the array of potential foods in their home ranges present a twofold problem: not all nutrients are present in any food in the requisite amounts or proportions and not all toxins and other costs are absent. Costs and benefits are inextricably linked. This so‐called packaging problem is particularly acute during periods, often seasonal, when the benefit‐to‐cost ratios of available foods are…
Baboon ecology.
Incest Avoidance as a Function of Environment and Heredity [and Comments and Reply]
Although it has repeatedly been demonstrated that behavior is best understood as a function of the interrelatedness of nature and nurture, many social scientists persist in posing these determinants adversatively and then contend that genes and biology are, at best, minor determinants of behavior. Analysis in incest avoidance illustrates the inadequacy of efforts to reduce to irrelevance genetic determinants. Man and many other species exhibit st…
Kin Selection in the Japanese Monkey
A Field Study of the Sociobiology of Rhesus Monkeys, Macaca Mulatta
Physical Anthropology
Baboon ecology.
Estimating rates of behavior from Hansen frequencies
Baboons, Space, Time, and Energy
How are social organization and ecology related to each other? Yellow baboons, hamadryas baboons, and gelada monkeys are all large, terrestrial African primates, but they have three different patterns of social organization, and they live in three, markedly different habitats: savannah, steppe-desert, and alpine heather-meadowland, respectively. An attempt is made to provide testable hypotheses and heuristic principles that can relate these two c…
Life history of yellow baboons
Kin Selection in the Japanese Monkey
Physical maturation and age estimates of yellow baboons, Papio cynocephalus , in Amboseli National Park, Kenya
In a longitudinal study of individually identified wild baboons in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, we collected data on physical development and reproductive maturation. Confirming and extending our earlier results, we demonstrated that the ratio of ages at which developmental milestones occur in the field as compared to those under extensive provisioning or in captivity were approximately 5:3. The age range for some developmental milestones was q…
Incest Avoidance as a Function of Environment and Heredity [and Comments and Reply]
Although it has repeatedly been demonstrated that behavior is best understood as a function of the interrelatedness of nature and nurture, many social scientists persist in posing these determinants adversatively and then contend that genes and biology are, at best, minor determinants of behavior. Analysis in incest avoidance illustrates the inadequacy of efforts to reduce to irrelevance genetic determinants. Man and many other species exhibit st…
Demography of Amboseli baboons, 1963–1983
Repeated censuses of a population of yellow baboons ( Papio cynocephalus ) in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, revealed a decrease from over 2,500 animals in 1963–1964 to 123 individuals in 1979, or from a density of about 73 to 1.8 baboons per km 2 over a 15‐year period. Median group size decreased from 43 in 1964 to 27 in 1979. The largest and smallest groups declined the most; groups near the median have maintained fairly stable size and age dis…
More on Hominid Diet Before Fire
Body size and fatness of free‐living baboons reflect food availability and activity levels
We used morphometric techniques and isotope‐labeled water to investigate the influence of abundant, accessible food and resultant low activity levels on body size and fatness in free‐living adolescent and adult baboons as compared to animals in the same population that experienced more typical, wild‐feeding conditions. Females that had access to abundant food from a nearby garbage dump averaged 16.7 kg body mass, 50% more than their wild‐feeding …
Fallback foods, eclectic omnivores, and the packaging problem
For omnivorous primates, as for other selective omnivores, the array of potential foods in their home ranges present a twofold problem: not all nutrients are present in any food in the requisite amounts or proportions and not all toxins and other costs are absent. Costs and benefits are inextricably linked. This so‐called packaging problem is particularly acute during periods, often seasonal, when the benefit‐to‐cost ratios of available foods are…
Biology (9 works) · Primate Behavior and Ecology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Demography (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (4 works)