Life and Death in the Gombe Chimpanzees: Skeletal Analysis as an Insight into Life History

This book addresses how skeletons can inform us about behavior by describing skeletal lesions in the Gombe chimpanzees, relating them to known life histories whenever possible, and analyzing demographic patterns in the sample. This is of particular interest to both primatologists and skeletal analysts who have benefited from published data on a smaller, earlier skeletal sample from Gombe.

The Gombe skeletal collection is the largest collection of wild chimpanzees with known life histories ...