Comparative methods for studying primate adaptation and allometry

By Charles L. Nunn, R. Barton. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Paleontology, Social Psychology

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Variation in the Diets of Cercopithecus Species: Differences within Forests, among Forests, and across Species (2004, background): “Extensive dietary variation challenges the typological conception of species that underlies many comparative analyses and it may obscure large-scale patterns (Nunn and Barton, 2001).”
A comparative study of conflict resolution in macaques: insights into the nature of trait covariation (2008, methodology): “Given that most traits showed evidence for some degree of phylogenetic signal, we base our primary conclusions on results from phylogeny-based comparative tests, although we also provide nonphylogenetic tests for comparison (see Nunn & Barton 2001 ).”
Fission‐Fusion Dynamics (2008, methodology): “Comparative studies of cognitive adaptations to different degrees of fission-fusion dynamics should therefore use appropriate phylogenetic methods (e.g., Pagel and Harvey 1991; Nunn and Barton 2001).”
Comparative tests of reproductive skew in male primates: the roles of demographic factors and incomplete control (2006, unknown): “To test predictions of the concession model and the tug-ofwar model, we calculated phylogenetically independent contrasts (Felsenstein 1985; Harvey and Pagel 1991; Nunn and Barton 2001) using the computer program Comparative Analysis by Independent Contrasts (CAIC) (Purvis and Rambaut 1995).”
Body size, diet and sociality influence the species richness of parasitic worms in anthropoid primates (2004, methodology): “For example, large-bodied hosts of some mammalian orders, such as primates, tend to be terrestrial (Clutton-Brock and Harvey, 1977; Harvey and Clutton-Brock, 1985; Nunn and Barton, 2001) and most have ‘slow’ life histories (e.”
Size-Correction and Principal Components for Interspecific Comparative Studies (2009, methodology): “…of data from species (Cheverud et al. 1985; Felsenstein 1985; Grafen 1989; Harvey and Pagel 1991), and these procedures have become quite widely used in the evolutionary genetic, ecological, and anthropological literatures (e.g., Nunn and Barton 2001; Andrews et al. 2009; Pontzer and Kamilar 2009).”
Do male "long-distance calls" function in mate defense? A comparative study of long-distance calls in primates (2002, methodology): “We used methods based on independent contrasts (Felsenstein 1985) and the concentrated changes test (Maddison 1990) to test hypotheses in an explicitly phylogenetic framework (Harvey and Pagel 1991; Nunn and Barton 2001).”
Evolution of Primate Social Systems (2002, background): “The development of ever more refined comparative tests and more detailed phylogenies in recent years alone (Gittleman and Luh, 1992; Harvey and Pagel, 1991; Nunn and Barton, 2001; Purvis, 1995) provided an underused tool box for primatologists.”
Host social behavior and parasitic infection: a multifactorial approach (2004, background): “Patterns that emerge from nonphylogenetically controlled comparative studies sometimes do not hold up once phylogeny is taken into account (Harvey and Pagel, 1991; Nunn and Barton 2001).”