You are not signed in. Sign in.

List Books: Buy books on ListBooks.org

Primate Adaptation and Evolution » (2nd Edition)

Book cover image of Primate Adaptation and Evolution by John G. Fleagle

Authors: John G. Fleagle
ISBN-13: 9780122603419, ISBN-10: 0122603419
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Date Published: September 1998
Edition: 2nd Edition

Find Best Prices for This Book »

Author Biography: John G. Fleagle

John Fleagle is a primatologist whose research combines field studies and functional morpho-logical analysis. He is interested in the adaptive radiation of primates during the last 50 mil-lion years. He has conducted paleobiological research in Egypt, Argentina, and Ethiopia and has studied living primates in Malaysia, Surinam, Brazil and Madagascar. Fleagle is a MacArthur Fellow. He is the author of the textbook Primate Adaptation and Evolution, and the Editor of Evolutionary Anthropology.

Book Synopsis

* Features up-to-date information about many aspects of primate biology and evolution
• Contains a completely new chapter on primate communities
• Presents totally revised chapters on primate origins, early anthropoids, and fossil platyrrhines
• Includes an updated glossary, illustrations, and
• Classification of Order Primates
• Succeeds as the best introductory text on primate evolution because it synthesizes and allows access to primary literature

Table of Contents

Tables & Illustrations
Preface
1Adaptation, Evolution, and Systematics
2The Primate Body
3Primate Lives
4Prosimians
5New World Anthropoids
6Old World Monkeys
7Apes and Humans
8Primate Communities
9Primate Adaptation
10The Fossil Record
11Primate Origins
12Fossil Prosimians
13Early Anthropoids
14Fossil Platyrrhines
15Fossil Apes
16Fossil Old World Monkeys
17Hominids, the Bipedal Primates
18Patterns in Primate Evolution
Glossary
Classification of Order Primates
Index

Subjects