
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to primates. It provides both a survey and synthesis of primate history, biology, and behavior. As a survey, it offers a focused review of living and extinct primates in regional and community frameworks. As a synthesis, it applies the community perspective in a unique way to explore primates' adaptive diversity in the context of how evolution works. The book encourages students to study primates as integrated members of regional communities, ecologically, historically, and evolutionarily.
The chapters are organized to emphasize the patterns of primate radiations in the four regions of the world where primates live, and to facilitate comparisons among the radiations. The overviews of communities illustrate how the ecological adaptations of different species and taxonomic or phylogenetic groups enable them to coexist. Illustrations and tools to aid students' learning include case studies, photographs, figures, tables, charts, key concepts, and quizlets to self-test.
This book is an ideal introduction for students studying nonhuman primates, primatology, primate behavior, or primate ecology.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Endorsement page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 What is a primate?
- 2 Arboreal frugivory: the primate adaptive zone
- 3 Madagascar: lemurs
- 4 South America: New World monkeys
- 5 Africa: lorises, galagos, Old World monkeys, and great apes
- 6 Asia: lorises, tarsiers, Old World monkeys, and apes
- 7 Primate communities compared: ecology, morphology, and behavior
- 8 The primate fossil record: highlights
- 9 Primates in crisis
- Glossary
- About the author
- Index