Authors: John G. Fleagle
ISBN-13: 9780122603419, ISBN-10: 0122603419
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Date Published: September 1998
Edition: 2nd Edition
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.
* 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
Tables & Illustrations | ||
Preface | ||
1 | Adaptation, Evolution, and Systematics | |
2 | The Primate Body | |
3 | Primate Lives | |
4 | Prosimians | |
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 | Fossil Apes | |
16 | Fossil Old World Monkeys | |
17 | Hominids, the Bipedal Primates | |
18 | Patterns in Primate Evolution | |
Glossary | ||
Classification of Order Primates | ||
Index |