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List of works by Joan Silk

A practical guide to the study of social relationships

scientific article published in September 2013

Adoption and Kinship in Oceania

scientific article (publication date: December 1980)

Animal Behaviour: Friendship Enhances Trust in Chimpanzees

scientific article published in January 2016

Animal behavior: conflict management is for the birds

scientific article published in January 2007

Animal behaviour: The evolutionary roots of lethal conflict.

scientific article published in September 2014

Behavior. Who are more helpful, humans or chimpanzees?

scientific article

Changes in the dominance rank and reproductive behaviour of male bonnet macaques (Macaca radiata)

article

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) do not develop contingent reciprocity in an experimental task

scientific article published on 04 March 2009

Chimpanzees are indifferent to the welfare of unrelated group members

scientific article

Chimpanzees do not take advantage of very low cost opportunities to deliver food to unrelated group members

scientific article published on May 2008

Chimpanzees share food for many reasons: the role of kinship, reciprocity, social bonds and harassment on food transfers

scientific article

Chimps don't just get mad, they get even

scholarly article

Contributions of Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

scientific article

Cooperatively breeding cottontop tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) do not donate rewards to their long-term mates

scientific article published in August 2009

Correlates of agonistic and competitive interactions in pregnant baboons

scientific article published on 01 January 1987

Dorothy Cheney (1950-2018)

scientific article published on 19 March 2019

Dorothy L. Cheney (1950-2018)

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Evidence for intra-sexual selection in wild female baboons

scientific article

Evolution: Taxonomies of cognition

journal article; published in Nature on 2016-04-13

Evolutionary biology: The path to sociality

scientific article published in Nature

Evolutionary foundations of human prosocial sentiments.

scientific article

Female chacma baboons form strong, equitable, and enduring social bonds

scientific article

Fosterage as a system of dispersed cooperative breeding: evidence from the Himba.

scientific article published in December 2014

Hyena politics: The dynamics of dynasties

scientific article published on 25 March 2019

Impatient traders or contingent reciprocators? Evidence for the extended time-course of grooming exchanges in baboons

article

Infant Mortality Risk and Paternity Certainty Are Associated with Postnatal Maternal Behavior toward Adult Male Mountain Gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei).

scientific article published on 10 February 2016

Insights into the evolution of social systems and species from baboon studies

scientific article published on 12 November 2019

Interpretative problems with chimpanzee ultimatum game

scientific article published on 20 June 2013

Introduction to special issue

scientific article published in September 2013

Kin Selection in Primate Groups

Local resource competition and local resource enhancement shape primate birth sex ratios

scientific article

Looking inside the black box: Mechanisms linking social behavior to health and fitness

scientific article

MEASUREMENT OF THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF INDIVIDUAL SELECTION AND KIN SELECTION AMONG FEMALES OF THE GENUS MACACA.

scientific article

Male chimpanzees exchange political support for mating opportunities.

scientific article published in August 2007

Male-female relationships in olive baboons (Papio anubis): Parenting or mating effort?

scientific article published on 21 January 2019

Maternal Condition Does Not Influence Birth Sex Ratios in Anubis Baboons (Papio anubis) ⬇️

scientific article published on September 22, 2010

Maternal rank and local resource competition do not predict birth sex ratios in wild baboons.

scientific article published in April 2005

Mothers know best

scientific article

Nepotistic cooperation in non-human primate groups

scientific article

Network connections, dyadic bonds and fitness in wild female baboons

scientific article

Ontogeny of prosocial behavior across diverse societies.

scientific article

Patterns of coalition formation by adult female baboons in Amboseli, Kenya

scholarly article by Joan Silk et al published March 2004 in Animal Behaviour

Primate Behavior and Human Universals: Exploring the Gap

scientific article published on 24 September 2009

Reciprocal altruism

scientific article published in September 2013

Reconsidering the null hypothesis: Is maternal rank associated with birth sex ratios in primate groups?

scientific article

Reproduction, Mortality, and Female Reproductive Success in Chacma Baboons of the Okavango Delta, Botswana

article

Reproductive synchrony in captive macaques

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

Shifts in Male Reproductive Tactics over the Life Course in a Polygynandrous Mammal

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

Social Bonds of Female Baboons Enhance Infant Survival ⬇️

scientific article published on November 14, 2003

Social components of fitness in primate groups

scientific article

Social mechanisms of population regulation in a captive group of bonnet macaques (Macaca radiata)

scientific article published on 01 January 1988

Social norms and cultural diversity in the development of third-party punishment

scientific article published on 22 April 2020

Social relationships among adult female baboons (papio cynocephalus) I. Variation in the strength of social bonds

scientific article published in 2006

Stability of partner choice among female baboons

scientific article (publication date: June 2012)

Strategic Use of Affiliative Vocalizations by Wild Female Baboons

scientific article

Strong and consistent social bonds enhance the longevity of female baboons

scientific article published in July 2010

Studying extant species to model our past.

scientific article

Summer books

Task design influences prosociality in captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

The Form and Function of Reconciliation in Primates

article

The adaptive value of sociality in mammalian groups

scientific article (publication date: 29 April 2007)

The benefits of social capital: close social bonds among female baboons enhance offspring survival.

scientific article published on 10 June 2009

The contributions of Jeanne Altmann

scientific article published in September 2013

The evolution of altruistic social preferences in human groups

scientific article published on February 2016

The evolution of human cooperation

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

The upside of aging

scientific article

To grunt or not to grunt: Factors governing call production in female olive baboons, Papio anubis

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Triadic interactions among Macaca radiata: Passports and buffers

scientific article published on 01 January 1984

True paternal care in a multi-male primate society

scientific article

Universal norm psychology leads to societal diversity in prosocial behaviour and development

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

Unpaid researchers: Fieldwork grants would up diversity

scientific article published in July 2015

Variation in personality and fitness in wild female baboons

scientific article (publication date: 16 October 2012)

Why Polyandry Fails: Sources of Instability in Polyandrous Marriages

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