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Primate anatomy : an introduction /
This book is unlike ay other work on primates: it systematically reviews the biology of all living primates, including humans. It describes their bio-geographical information and provides crucial data pertaining to their body size, fur coloration external distinguishing features, habitat and basic l...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier Academic Press,
�2007.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Taxonomic list of extant primates
- New developments
- List of extant primates
- 2. Taxonomy
- Hierarchical classification
- Population biology and classification
- Misunderstandings in primate classification
- The tarsier conundrum
- 3. A history and objectives of primatology
- The state of affairs
- History
- Primatology as a branch of biology
- The future of primatology
- Retrospection and prediction
- Definition of order Primates
- 4. Survey of living primates
- Survey of living Scandentia and Prosimii
- Survey of living Anthropoidea
- 5. Skull
- Skull development and the two types of bone
- Orbital region
- Nasal region
- Skull base, braincase, and foramen magnum position
- Ear region
- The sinuses
- Comparative primate skull morphology
- 6. Brain
- Brain morphology
- Gene expression
- New insights into brain function
- 7. Teeth
- Tooth morphology and diet, can they be reliably correlated?
- Tooth structure
- Dental formulae
- Dental typology
- Functional and morphological variation
- Chewing mechanics
- Dental formulae and morphology
- What is new in primate tooth research?
- 8. Postcranial skeleton
- Spine and thorax
- Shoulder girdle
- Pelvic girdle
- Hands and feet
- Fifth extremity
- Muscles
- Locomotion
- New technologies applied to study primate locomotion
- 9. Sense organs and viscera
- Nose and olfaction
- Oral cavity, tongue, and taste
- Auditory region, hearing, and vocalization
- Eyes and eyesight
- Primate diarhythms and biochronology
- Nutrition and the intestinal tract
- Touch
- 10. Placentation and early primate development
- Lemuridae and Lorisidae
- Tarsiidae
- Ceboidea and Cercopithecoidea
- Callitrichidae
- Pongidae and Hominidae
- 11. Reproductive organs, reproduction, and growth
- 12. Chromosomes and blood groups
- Chromosomes
- Blood groups
- 13. Molecular primatology
- The genetic material of cells
- Indirect methods to study molecular primatology
- Direct study of genetic material
- Problems of phylogenetic analysis using molecular data
- 14. Primate genomics
- The history of genetics
- Molecular phylogenetics
- The tarsier conundrum still not solved
- Genetic expression of human learning
- BAC, YAC, and PAC libraries
- Genes controlling human behavior
- View into the future of genomics
- Transposable elements and numts
- Outlook and reflections
- 15. Conclusions and a glance at the future.