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Primate adaptation and evolution /

For many years John Fleagle's text on the adaptation and evolution of primates and early hominoid fossils was the the text of choice for teachers and research workers alike. Now, as the only such work in print, this new edition brings this coverage up to date with the latest fossil finds and mo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fleagle, John G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2013.
Edición:Third edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Adaptation, Evolution, and Systematics
  • 2. The Primate Body
  • 3. Primate Lives
  • 4. Prosimians: Lemurs, Lorises, Galagos and Tarsiers
  • 5. New World Anthropoids
  • 6. Old World Monkeys
  • 7. Apes and Humans
  • 8. Primate Communities
  • 9. Primate Adaptation
  • 10. The Fossil Record
  • 11. Primate Origins
  • 12. Fossil Prosimians
  • 13. Early Anthropoids
  • 14. Fossil Platyrrhines
  • 15. Primitive Catarrhines and Fossil Apes
  • 16. Fossil Old World Monkeys
  • 17. Fossil Hominins, the Bipedal Primates
  • 18. Patterns in Primate Evolution.