Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates
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advanced primate evolutionary analysis
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Arboreal Mammals
Author_Russell Tuttle
Basal Insectivores
behavioral ecology
Benjamin B. Beck
Catarrhine Primates
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Caudal Vertebrae
Cercopithecus Nictitans
Charles E. Oxnard
Cheek Teeth
Colobus Polykomos
comparative anatomy
cranial biomechanics
David R. Pilbeam
Donald R. Wilson
Donald Stone Sade
Elwyn L. Simons
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Erythrocebus Patas
evolutionary morphology
fossil primates
Frederick S. Szalay
Friderun Ankel
J. Owen Lewis
Joel E. Cohen
John V. Basmajian
L. Holloway Ralph
Langur Troops
Late Paleocene
Lemur Catta
Leonard Radinsky
Lunate Sulcus
Matt Cartmill
Paleocene Primates
Palmar Radiocarpal Ligament
Pan Gorilla
Patas Monkeys
Petrosal Bulla
Pongo Pygmaeus
Presbytis Cristatus
Presbytis Entellus
primate phylogeny
Russell Tuttle
S. Bernstein Irwin
Stephan Heinz
Sylvian Sulci
Ulnar Styloid Process
V. Tobias Phillip
Vertical Clingers
W. W. Howells
Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center
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- ISBN 9780202361390
- Weight: 725g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Aug 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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These original contributions on the evolution of primates and the techniques for studying the subject cover an enormous range of material and incorporate the work of specialists from many different fields, showing the necessity of a multidisciplinary approach to problems of primate morphology and phylogeny. Collectively, they demonstrate the concerns and methods of leading contemporary workers in this and related fields. Each contributor shows his way of attacking fundamental problems of evolutionary primatology.The range of findings in this book include new clues to the evolution of the middle ear and the subsistence behavior of early primates, a persuasive critique of the Smith-Jones hypothesis that many features of primate cranial morphology are adaptations to the special vicissitudes of arboreal habitation, the remarkable association of relative muscle mass in the hands and feet of catarrhine primates with the particularities of prehensile behaviors, the wealth of behavioral data that may be obtained by the concentrated study of certain primates in the vicinity of waterholes, the striking differences between inferences about the same behavioral phenomena that are based on long-term as opposed to short-term observations of one primate social group, and the strategy of sophisticated mathematical techniques for elucidating biomechanical, evolutionary, and behavioral problems.Each chapter conveys the status and progress of research in these and other particular areas of special interest, pointing the way toward further clarification of the functional biology and phylogeny of primates through the application of relatively new techniques or the comprehensive employment of available methods. No attempt is made to smooth over controversial points of view, or to endorse a single uniform model of primate evolution. This work will be an important reference for evolutionary and physical anthropologists, evolutionary biologists, comparative morphologists, human anatomists, behavioralists, and students of evolution.
Russell Tuttle is professor of anthropology, on the Committee on Evolutionary Biology, and part of the Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Biology and Medicine at the University of Chicago. He specializes in research in the history and theory of human evolution, primate behavior, and comparative functional morphology. His contributions to the literature have appeared in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Science, Science Journal, and other publications.
