title: Ecological modelling in an evolutionary context.
abstract: I argue that one of the strong features in disciplines like molecular biology and cosmology is the extent ot which they use a powerful theoretical framework to generate and test quantitative predictions. Studies of biological evolution can exploit a similar advantage by integrating our current understanding of physiological and sociobiological processes to generate models of much greater sophistication than has commonly been the practice hitherto. I illustrate this with a number of examples drawn from the evolutionary biology of human and nonhuman primates.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University College, London, UK.
authors.forename: R I
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: Dunbar
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D008954:Models, Biological