
- 540 pages
- English
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Primate Adaptation and Evolution
About this book
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 fossilsï Reviews primate evolutionï Provides an introduction to the primate anatomyï Discusses the features that distinguish the living groups of primatesï Summarizes recent work on primate ecology
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Primate Adaptation & Evolution
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER ONE. Adaptation, Evolution, and Systematics
- CHAPTER TWO. The Primate Body
- CHAPTER THREE. Primate Life
- CHAPTER FOUR. Prosimians
- CHAPTER FIVE. New World Anthropoids
- CHAPTER SIX. Old World Monkeys
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Apes and Humans
- CHAPTER EIHGT. Primate Adaptations
- CHAPTER NINE. The Fossil Record
- CHAPTER TEN. Archaic Primates
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Fossil Prosimians
- CHAPTER TWELVE. Early Anthropoids and Fossil Platyrrhines
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Fossil Apes
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Fossil Old World Monkeys
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Hominids, the Bipedal Primates
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN. Pattems in Primate Evolution
- GLOSSARY
- CLASSIFICATION OF ORDER PRIMATES
- INDEX