Primate Adaptation and Evolution
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Primate Adaptation and Evolution

  1. 540 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Primate Adaptation and Evolution

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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

  1. Front Cover
  2. Primate Adaptation & Evolution
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. PREFACE
  6. CHAPTER ONE. Adaptation, Evolution, and Systematics
  7. CHAPTER TWO. The Primate Body
  8. CHAPTER THREE. Primate Life
  9. CHAPTER FOUR. Prosimians
  10. CHAPTER FIVE. New World Anthropoids
  11. CHAPTER SIX. Old World Monkeys
  12. CHAPTER SEVEN. Apes and Humans
  13. CHAPTER EIHGT. Primate Adaptations
  14. CHAPTER NINE. The Fossil Record
  15. CHAPTER TEN. Archaic Primates
  16. CHAPTER ELEVEN. Fossil Prosimians
  17. CHAPTER TWELVE. Early Anthropoids and Fossil Platyrrhines
  18. CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Fossil Apes
  19. CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Fossil Old World Monkeys
  20. CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Hominids, the Bipedal Primates
  21. CHAPTER SIXTEEN. Pattems in Primate Evolution
  22. GLOSSARY
  23. CLASSIFICATION OF ORDER PRIMATES
  24. INDEX