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Introduction to the primates /
A comprehensive guide to the evolutionary history of the world's prosimians, monkeys, and apes, and of humankind's interactions with them. This account of 65 million years of adaptation and evolution concludes with a chapter on the threat that homo sapiens now pose to the survival of the w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
c1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Monkeys and Apes in History; 2 Classification and Distribution of Living Primates; 3 Blood Groups, Chromosomes, and DNA; 4 The Skull; 5 Teeth, Diet, and Digestion; 6 The Brain and Special Senses; 7 The Skeleton and Locomotion; 8 Growth and Development; 9 Social Groups and Primate Behavior; 10 Fossil Primates; 11 Primate Conservation; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; Z; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.