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Primate adaptation & evolution /
"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 recor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Diego :
Academic Press,
[1988]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Primate Adaptation & Evolution; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE. Adaptation, Evolution, and Systematics; Adaptation; Evolution; Phylogeny; Taxonomy and Systematics; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CHAPTER TWO. The Primate Body; Size; Cranial Anatomy; The Brain and Senses; The Trunk and Limbs; Soft Tissues; Growth, Development, and Aging; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CHAPTER THREE. Primate Life; Primate Habitats; Land Use; Activity Patterns; A Primate Day; Primate Diets; Locomotion; Social Life; Why Primates Live in Groups; Primate Communities; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CHAPTER FOUR. Prosimians.
- Malagasy StrepsirhinesSubfossil Malagasy Prosimians; ADAPTIVE RADIATION OF MALAGASY PRIMATES; Galagos and Lorises; ADAPTIVE RADIATION OF GALAGOS AND LORISES; PHYLETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF STREPSIRHINES; Tarsiers; PHYLETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF TARSIERS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CHAPTER FIVE. New World Anthropoids; Anatomy of Higher Primates; Platyrrhines; Callitrichines; ADAPTIVE RADIATION OF PLATYRRHINES; PHYLETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF PLATYRRHINES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CHAPTER SIX. Old World Monkeys; Catarrhine Anatomy; Cercopithecoids; ADAPTIVE RADIATION OF OLD WORLD MONKEYS; PHYLETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF OLD WORLD MONKEYS.
- PLESIADAPIFORMS AND LATER PRIMATESBIBLIOGRAPHY; CHAPTER ELEVEN. Fossil Prosimians; The First Modern Primates; Adapids; ARE ADAPIDS STREPSIRHINES?; Fossil Lorises and Galagos; Omomyids; Tarsiids; OMOMYIDS AND LATER PRIMATES; ADAPTIVE RADIATIONS OF EOCENE PROSIMIANS; PHYLETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF ADAPIDS AND OMOMYIDS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CHAPTER TWELVE. Early Anthropoids and Fossil Platyrrhines; Possible Early Higher Primates; Fossil Primates from Fayum, Egypt; THE FAYUM PRIMATES IN ANTHROPOID EVOLUTION; Fossil Platyrrhines; SUMMARY OF FOSSIL PLATYRRHINES; PLATYRRHINE ORIGINS.
- PROSIMIAN ORIGINS OF ANTHROPOIDSEARLY ANTHROPOID EVOLUTION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Fossil Apes; Early and Middle Miocene Apes from Africa; ADAPTIVE RADIATION OF EAST AFRICAN FOSSIL APES; PHYLETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF EARLY MIOCENE APES; Eurasian Fossil Apes; THE EVOLUTION OF LIVING HOMINOIDS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Fossil Old World Monkeys; Victoriapithecids: The Earliest Old World Monkeys; Fossil Cercopithecids; SUMMARY OF FOSSIL CERCOPITHECOIDS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Hominids, the Bipedal Primates; Genus Australopithecus.