Primate Adaptation and Evolution

Publisher: Academic Press
Year: 1988
Tongue: English
Leaves: 491
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Primate Adaptation and Evolutionis the only recent text published in this rapidly progressing field. It provides you with an extensive, current survey of the order Primates, both living and fossil. By combining information on primate anatomy, ecology, and behavior with the primate fossil record, this book enables students to study primates from all epochs as a single, viable group. It surveys major primate radiations throughout 65 million years, and provides equal treatment of both living and extinct species.

ï Presents a summary of the primate fossils
ï Reviews primate evolution
ï Provides an introduction to the primate anatomy
ï Discusses the features that distinguish the living groups of primates
ï Summarizes recent work on primate ecology

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
TABLES & ILLUSTRATIONS, Pages ix-xv
PREFACE, Pages xvii-xix
ONE - Adaptation, Evolution, and Systematics, Pages 1-10, John G. Fleagle
TWO - The Primate Body, Pages 11-43, John G. Fleagle
THREE - Primate Life, Pages 45-66, John G. Fleagle
FOUR - Prosimians, Pages 67-110, John G. Fleagle
FIVE - New World Anthropoids, Pages 111-157, John G. Fleagle
SIX - Old World Monkeys, Pages 159-201, John G. Fleagle
SEVEN - Apes and Humans, Pages 203-229, John G. Fleagle
EIGHT - Primate Adaptations, Pages 231-256, John G. Fleagle
NINE - The Fossil Record, Pages 257-267, John G. Fleagle
TEN - Archaic Primates, Pages 269-288, John G. Fleagle
ELEVEN - Fossil Prosimians, Pages 289-324, John G. Fleagle
TWELVE - Early Anthropoids and Fossil Platyrrhines, Pages 325-361, John G. Fleagle
THIRTEEN - Fossil Apes, Pages 363-396, John G. Fleagle
FOURTEEN - Fossil Old World Monkeys, Pages 397-413, John G. Fleagle
FIFTEEN - Hominids, the Bipedal Primates, Pages 415-448, John G. Fleagle
SIXTEEN - Patterns in Primate Evolution, Pages 449-464, John G. Fleagle
GLOSSARY, Pages 465-470
CLASSIFICATION OF ORDER PRIMATES, Pages 471-474
INDEX, Pages 475-486

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