Barbara Smuts
American anthropologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Barbara Boardman Smuts is an American anthropologist and psychologist noted for her research into baboons, dolphins, and chimpanzees, and a Professor Emeritus at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Smuts received a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Harvard University and a Ph.D in neurological and biological behavioral science from Stanford Medical School. In the 1970s she began studying animal behaviour at the University of Michigan, including research with Jane Goodall on chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, where she had a violent introduction to field research, being among four field researchers kidnapped and beaten by a Marxist revolutionary group. She received the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contribution to Psychology in 1988.
Barbara Smuts's Published Works
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- Sex and friendship in baboons (1987) (775)
- Male Aggression and Sexual Coercion of Females in Nonhuman Primates and Other Mammals: Evidence and Theoretical Implications (1993) (698)
- The Human Community as a Primate Society [and Comments] (1991) (362)
- Howlers: variations in group size and demography (1987) (336)
- Social relationships and social cognition in nonhuman primates. (1986) (334)
- The evolutionary origins of patriarchy (1995) (287)
- Cercopithecines in multimale groups : genetic diversity and population structure (1987) (255)
- Male aggression against women (1992) (230)
- Sexual competition and mate choice (1987) (210)
- Natal attraction: allomaternal care and mother–infant separations in wild bottlenose dolphins (1998) (194)
- Use of signature whistles during separations and reunions by wild bottlenose dolphin mothers and infants (1993) (184)
- Quantity-based judgments in the domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) (2006) (157)
- Sex differences in the behavioural ecology of chimpanzees in the Gombe National Park, Tanzania. (1980) (144)
- Male–infant relationships in nonhuman primates: Paternal investment or mating effort? (1992) (143)
- Reproduction in wild female olive baboons (1989) (140)
- Cooperation and competition during dyadic play in domestic dogs, Canis familiaris (2007) (140)
- A Mechanism for the Evolution of Altruism among Nonkin: Positive Assortment through Environmental Feedback (2002) (137)
- Rough‐and‐tumble play as a window on animal communication (2016) (130)
- Social relationships and ritualized greetings in adult male baboons (Papio cynocephalus anubis) (1990) (122)
- Partner preferences and asymmetries in social play among domestic dog, Canis lupus familiaris, littermates (2008) (85)
- The evolution of cooperation in an ecological context: an agent based model (2000) (76)
- Chimpanzee Politics: Sex and power among Apes: By Frans B.M. de Waal. New York: Harper and Row, 1982, 223 pp., $16.50 (1985) (53)
- Explaining Religion without Explaining It Away: Trust, Truth, and the Evolution of Cooperation in Roy A. Rappaport's “The Obvious Aspects of Ritual” (1999) (48)
- On the evolution of human behavior,: By Peter C. Reynolds, Berkeley: University of California press, 1981, 272 pp., $28.50 cloth, $8.95 paper (1982) (30)
- Between Species: Science and Subjectivity (2008) (28)
- RESPONSES TO CALF ENTANGLEMENT IN FREE-RANGING BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS (1995) (27)
- Dominance relationships in a group of domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) (2015) (24)
- Investigating the function of play bows in adult pet dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) (2016) (24)
- Third-party interventions in dyadic play between littermates of domestic dogs, Canis lupus familiaris (2009) (22)
- Social Behaviour among Companion Dogs with an Emphasis on Play (2014) (21)
- Affiliation, dominance and friendship among companion dogs (2016) (15)
- Human Development in the Twenty-First Century: Embodied communication in non-human animals (2007) (13)
- On the Human Community as a Primate Society: Reply to Comments (1991) (13)
- Investigating the Function of Play Bows in Dog and Wolf Puppies (Canis lupus familiaris, Canis lupus occidentalis) (2016) (11)
- AGENT-BASED MODELING OF MULTILEVEL SELECTION: THE EVOLUTION OF FEEDING RESTRAINT AS A CASE STUDY (2001) (11)
- Evolutionary psychology: Conceptual foundations (2005) (11)
- Play like a puppy, play like a dog (2009) (9)
- Dominance: An alternative view (1981) (8)
- Psychological adaptations, development and individual differences (1992) (6)
- The brain in love. (2004) (6)
- Limbic system regulation of ACTH. (1977) (5)
- Sanctifying the Cosmos (1999) (2)
- Cooperation, Commitment, and Communication in the Evolution of Human Sociality (2017) (2)
- Rollovers during play: Complementary perspectives (2015) (2)
- Social play in dogs: Individual variation and change over time (2009) (2)
- Conventional science will not do justice to nonhuman interests: A fresh approach is required (2020) (2)
- Common Ground: Studies of the social and emotional lives of forest apes reveal the evolutionary roots of human nature. (2001) (1)
- Irven DeVore, 1934–2014 (2015) (1)
- Making, Keeping, and Losing Friends (2017) (1)
- 5 Social Relationships and Life Histories of Primates (2014) (1)
- Through a window. By J. Goodall. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1990. 268 pp. $21.95 (cloth) (1991) (1)
- Why Does Carnivore Play Matter ? (2007) (1)
- Emergence in Social Evolution: A Great Ape Example (2008) (1)
- No More Wire Mothers, Ever (2003) (1)
- Feminism, the Naturalistic Fallacy, and Evolutionary Biology (1992) (0)
- Dolphin research. (1988) (0)
- Benefits of Friendship to the Female (2017) (0)
- Dolphin Research (1988) (0)
- - 0 Decades of a New Paradigm (2013) (0)
- Sociobiology's Successes (1996) (0)
- Apes of the World: Their Social Behavior, Communication, Mentality, and Ecology. Conservation and Management.Russell H. Tuttle (1988) (0)
- The Evolution and Human Behavior Program at the University of Michigan (1992) (0)
- Additional conference abstracts (1996) (0)
- What Made Friends Special (2017) (0)
- Field Work and Data Analysis (2017) (0)
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