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Meredith Small

Anthropology

#372

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#527

Historical Rank

#207

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Meredith Small's Degrees

PhD Anthropology Rutgers University
Masters Anthropology Rutgers University
Bachelors Anthropology University of Pennsylvania

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According to Wikipedia, Meredith Francesca Small is a Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Cornell University and popular science author. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She has been widely published in academic journals, and her research is presented in her most popular book: Our Babies, Ourselves. She spent many years studying both people and primate behaviour. Her current area of interest is in the intersection of biology and culture, and how that has influenced parenting.

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Meredith Small's Published Works

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Human reproductive behavior: A darwinian perspective (1991) (233)
Female primates: Studies by women primatologists (1984) (143)
Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent (1999) (142)
Female choice in nonhuman primates (1989) (131)
Female Choices: Sexual Behavior of Female Primates (1993) (88)
Chimpanzee material culture (1995) (81)
Promiscuity in Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) (1990) (73)
Female Primate Sexual Behavior and Conception: Are There Really Sperm to Spare? [and Comments and Reply] (1988) (70)
Alloparental behaviour in Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus (1990) (68)
High‐resolution chromosomes of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) (1985) (54)
Reproductive failure in macaques (1982) (43)
Brief repot: Interactions with infants by full siblings, paternal half‐siblings, and nonrelatives in a captive group of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) (1981) (35)
Secondary sex ratios by maternal rank, parity, and age in captive rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) (1986) (29)
Selection and the transferrin polymorphism in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). (1982) (27)
What's love got to do with it? : the evolution of human mating (1995) (27)
The evolution of female sexuality and mate selection in humans (1992) (25)
Our Babies, Ourselves. (1997) (24)
Sex of Infants Produced by Male Rhesus Macaques (1985) (24)
The relationship between maternal and paternal rank in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) (1982) (24)
Body fat, rank, and nutritional status in a captive group of Rhesus Macaques (1981) (19)
Paternity exclusion analysis and its applications to studies of nonhuman primates. (1984) (17)
Females without infants: mating strategies in two species of captive macaques. (1983) (17)
Sigma chi chimpy. (2001) (16)
A comparison of mother and nonmother behaviors during birth season in two species of captive macaques. (1982) (16)
Social climber: independent rise in rank by a female Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus). (1990) (14)
Consortships and conceptions in captive rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) (1990) (13)
Primigravidity and Infant Loss in Bonnet Macaques 1 (1981) (13)
The influence of birth timing upon infant growth and survival in Captive Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatto) (1986) (12)
Evolution and ecology of Macaque societies (1997) (12)
Mother's little helpers (2002) (9)
The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior (2000) (9)
The Culture of Our Discontent: Beyond the Medical Model of Mental Illness (2006) (8)
Sex differences in maternal investment by Macaca mulatta (1984) (8)
The nubian mesolithic: A consideration of the Wadi Halfa remains (1981) (7)
Aberrant sperm and the evolution of human mating patterns (1989) (7)
“Revealed” ovulation in humans? (1996) (7)
A Woman's Curse? (1999) (6)
Kids: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Raise Our Children (2001) (6)
Use of Time and Resources by Provisioned Troops of Monkeys: Social Behaviour, Time and Energy in the Barbary Macaque (Macaca Sylvanus L.) at Gibraltar.J. E. Fa (1987) (6)
The happy fat (2002) (5)
More than the best medicine. (2000) (4)
Mate choice by lineage in three captive groups of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). (1987) (4)
What's Love Got to Do with It? (1995) (3)
These Animals Think, Therefore... (1996) (3)
Brief report: Chromosomal analysis of perinatal death in Macaca mulatta and Macaca radiata (1983) (3)
Long live the !Kung. (2001) (3)
BRINGING BACK BABY (1999) (2)
First soldier of the gene wars (2006) (2)
POLITICAL ANIMAL: Social Intelligence and the Growth of the Primate Brain (1990) (2)
Primate visions. By Donna Haraway. New York: Routledge, Chapman, and Hall. 1989. ix + 486 pp., figures, notes, index. $35.00 (cloth) (1990) (1)
Behavioural Diversity in Chimpanzees and Bonobos: INTRODUCTION (2002) (1)
CHINA'S MOUNTAIN MONKEYS (1997) (1)
Kinship Envy: Musing on the ties of blood and marriage. (2000) (1)
Do Animals Have Culture (2001) (1)
From Gombe to the World (2007) (1)
Love with the Proper Stranger. (1998) (1)
Taste sensitivity to phenylthiourea (PTC) in the rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) (1981) (1)
How monkeys see the world; Inside the mind of another species, Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth, University of Chicago Press, Chicago (1990), x + 377 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-226-10245-9 (1992) (1)
The Cayo Santiago Macaques: History, Behavior, and Biology. Based on a Symposium Held on Cayo Santiago, 1983. Richard G. Rawlins , Matt J. Kessler (1987) (0)
: Cry of the Muriqui. . World Wildlife Fund. ; Monkey of the Clouds . World Wildlife Fund. (1985) (0)
Peacemaking among primates (1991) (0)
Review of Primates in Nature, by Alison F. Richard. New York, W. H. Freeman, 1985, 558 pp, $17.95 paper (1987) (0)
Social behavior of female vertebrates. Edited by S.K. Wasser. New York: Academic Press. 1983. xiv + 333 pp., figures, tables, references, index. $37.50(cloth) (1985) (0)
Floral Arrangements: Geneticists are studying the ABCs of building a blossom. (1999) (0)
The good, the bad, and the ugly (1996) (0)
FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS : GENES THAT TURN LEAVES INTO BLOSSOMS (1999) (0)
The magic number (2019) (0)
Juvenile primates: Life history, development, and behavior. Edited by Michael E. Pereira and Lynn A. Fairbanks. New York: Oxford University Press. 1993. ISBN 0‐9‐507206‐5. 428 pp. $65 (cloth) (1994) (0)
Comparative Social Behavior of Adult Female Rhesus Macaques and Bonnet Macaques (2010) (0)
Genes, Sex, Intelligence, and the Meaning of Life (2000) (0)
Fatherhood. Paternity in primates: Genetic tests and theories. Edited by R.D. Martin, A.F. Dixson, E.J. Wickings (1992). Basel: Karger (2005) (0)
Women After All (2015) (0)
But it takes someone special to be a daddy… A review of primate paternalism, edited by David M. Taub. New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1984, 441 pp (1986) (0)
All About Eve: Drawing on the latest scientific findings, Natalie Angier surveys the politically charged field of female biology, The result is a well-balanced, entertaining, and unfailingly provocative book. (1999) (0)
Read in the Bone. (1997) (0)
Analyze This: In the cause of conservation, everything from caviar to rhino dung is grist for the DNA laboratory. (1999) (0)

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