Primate Adaptation & Evolution (third edition)

Fleagle John

ISBN 10: 0123786320 / ISBN 13: 9780123786326

Editore: Elversier Amsterdam 2013, 2013

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28.0 x 22.0cms 442pp b/w illusts very good hardback with decorated boards (no dustwrapper as issued) The chapters are: adaptation evolution & systematics; the primate body; primate lives; the prosimians lemurs lorises galagos & tarsiers; New World anthropoids; Old World monkeys; apes & humans; primate communities & biogeography; primate adaptations; the fossil record; primate origins; fossil prosmians; early anthropoids; primitive catarrhines & fossil apes; fossil Old World monkeys; fossil hominins the bipedal primates; patterns in primate evolution. Codice articolo 30041981

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Titolo: Primate Adaptation & Evolution (third ...

Casa editrice: Elversier Amsterdam 2013

Data di pubblicazione: 2013

Legatura: Rilegato

Edizione: terza edizione

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Riassunto:

Primate Adaptation and Evolution, Third Edition, is a thorough revision of the text of choice for courses in primate evolution. The book retains its grounding in the extant primate groups as the best way to understand the fossil trail and the evolution of these modern forms. However, this coverage is now streamlined, making reference to the many new and excellent books on living primate ecology and adaptation – a field that has burgeoned since the first edition of Primate Adaptation and Evolution.

By drawing out the key features of the extant families and referring to more detailed texts, the author sets the scene and also creates space for a thorough updating of the exciting developments in primate palaeontology – and the reconstruction through early hominid species – of our own human origins. This updated version covers recent developments in primate paleontology and the latest taxonomy, and includes over 200 new illustrations and revised evolutionary trees.

This text is ideal for undergraduate and post-graduate students studying the evolution and functional ecology of primates and early fossil hominids.

• Long-awaited revision of the standard student text on primate evolution
• Full coverage of newly discovered fossils and the latest taxonomy
• Over 200 new illustrations and revised evolutionary trees

Informazioni sull?autore:

John G. Fleagle is a primatologist whose research combines field studies and functional morphological analysis. He is interested in the adaptive radiation of primates during the last 56 million years. He has conducted paleobiological research in Egypt, Argentina, and Ethiopia and has studied living primates in Malaysia, Surinam, Brazil and Madagascar. Dr. Fleagle is a MacArthur Fellow.