BOOK REVIEW John C. Mitani, Josep Call, Peter M. Kappeler, Ryne A. Palombit, Joan B. Silk (eds): The Evolution of Primate Societies University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2012, xiii + 730 pp., ISBN 978-0-226-53171-7, $145.00 (Hardcover) James P. Higham & Alexis L. Amann & Margaret A. H. Bryer & Nicole A. Thompson & Sandra Winters Received: 19 August 2013 / Accepted: 25 August 2013 # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 Twenty-five years have passed since the publication of Primate Societies (Smuts et al. 1987). In that time primatology has changed a great deal in its theoretical underpin- nings, its technical possibilities and methods, the nature and extent of its empirical scope, and sadly, in the status of its subjects in the wild. Intended as a follow-up synthesis of the field, The Evolution of Primate Societies aims to provide an integrated overview of the state of play in primatology. With 32 extensive chapters written by many of primatology’ s most established authorities, we should start by saying that this book really is a tome, and we doff our collective caps to the editors. Putting this together was clearly no small effort, and our field owes them a great debt for their dedication and service. The book is organized in five “parts.” These represent an overview of the primate order (Part 1, titled: “Primate Behavioral Diversity”), survival and development (Part 2, titled: “Surviving and Growing Up in a Difficult and Dangerous World”), reproduction (Part 3, titled: “Mating and Rearing Offspring”), sociality (Part 4, titled: “Getting Along”), and cognition (Part 5, titled: “Cognitive Strategies for Coping with Life’ s Int J Primatol DOI 10.1007/s10764-013-9731-7 J. P. Higham (*) : S. Winters Department of Anthropology, New York University, 25 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003, USA e-mail: jhigham@nyu.edu A. L. Amann : M. A. H. Bryer Department of Anthropology, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA N. A. Thompson Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA J. P. Higham : A. L. Amann : M. A. H. Bryer : N. A. Thompson : S. Winters New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology, New York, NY, USA