Description
Book SynopsisAt once instructive and compelling, this theme-spanning book reveals the complex nature of maturity in scores of social species and shows that animal behavior often displays the same diversity we find in ourselves.
Trade ReviewI feel grateful to Dagg for trying to bring the strands of a relatively unknown literature together. PsycCRITIQUES 2009 Dagg's book should be a corrective to us all; species that lose or ignore the contributions of their older members do so at their peril. Literary Review of Canada 2009 Humans and chimps, it turns out, value age in sexual partners very differently. In our species youth is prized, but among chimps the reverse is the case. -- Tim Flannery New York Review of Books 2010
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Evolutionary Matters
2. Sociality, Media, and Variability
3. The Wisdom of Elders
4. Leaders
5. Teaching and Learning
6. Reproduction
7. Successful Subordinates
8. The Fall of Titans
9. Aging of Captive Alphas
10. Happy Families
11. Mothering—Good and Not So Good
12. Grandmothers
13. Sexy Seniors
14. Their Own Person
15. Adapting and Not Adapting
16. All Passion Spent
17. The Inevitable End
Notes
References
Index
