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This book features recently-gathered knowledge about the natural
history of Africa's most species-rich group of anthropoid primates.
The volume is particularly strong on behavioral ecology, but also
presents important new evolutionary analyses and makes practical
suggestions to address the growing threats posed to the survival of
these (and other) African primates by ever-increasing habitat loss
and hunting. The authors use the diversity of guenons to address,
and often question, several major tenets of primate socioecology.
Most significantly, this volume thoroughly demolishes the view that
guenons are a uniform radiation. Topics covered include evolution,
taxonomy, biogeography, reproductive physiology, positional
behavior, social and reproductive behavior, ecology, and
conservation. The book is composed of 26 chapters compiled by 47
authors, many of whom are young investigators in their field.