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Taxonomic tapestries : the threads of evolutionary, behavioural and conservation research /
This volume explores the complexity, diversity and interwoven nature of taxonomic pursuits within the context of explorations of humans and related species. It also pays tribute to Professor Colin Groves, whose work has had an enormous impact on this field. Recent research into that somewhat unique...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Acton, A.C.T. :
ANU Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I ; The Groves effect : 50 years of influence on behaviour, evolution and conservation research / Alison M. Behie and Marc F. Oxenham
- Part II ; Characterisation of the endemic Sulawesi Lenomys meyeri (Muridae, Murinae) and the description of a new species of Lenomys / Guy G. Musser
- Gibbons and hominoid ancestry / Peter Andrews and Richard J. Johnson
- Hurricanes and coastlines : the role of natural disasters in the speciation of howler monkeys / Alison M. Behie, Travis S. Steffens, Tracy M. Wyman, Mary S.M. Pavelka
- Adolf Remane : notes on his work on primates / Prof Ulrich Welsch
- Retouch intensity on Quina scrapers at Combe Grenal : a test of the reduction model / Peter Hiscock and Chris Clarkson
- What are species and why does it matter? anopheline taxonomy and the transmission of malaria / Robert Attenborough
- Part III ; Lamarck on species and evolution / Marc F. Oxenham
- Naming the scale of nature / Juliet Clutton-Brock
- Changes in human tooth-size and shape with the Neolithic transition in Indo-Malaysia / David Bulbeck
- Variation in the Early and Middle Pleistocene : the phylogenetic relationships of Ceprano, Bodo, Daka, Kabwe and Buia / Debbie Argue
- Human evolution in Sunda and Sahul and the continuing contributions of Professor Colin Groves / Michael C. Westaway, Arthur Durband and David Lambert
- Part IV ; The domestic and the wild in the Mongolian horse and the takhi / Natasha Fijn
- Rhino systematics in the times of Linnaeus, Cuvier, Gray and Groves / Kees Rookmaaker
- Conservation consequences of unstable taxonomies : the case of the red colobus monkeys / John Oates and Nelson Ting
- The phylogenetic species concept and its role in Southeast Asian mammal conservation / Erik Meijaard and Benjamin Rawson
- Conserving gorilla diversity / Angela Meder
- The warp and weft : synthesising our taxonomic tapestry / Marc F. Oxenham and Alison M. Behie.