Primate Adaptation and Evolution - Hardcover

Fleagle, John G.

 
9780122603419: Primate Adaptation and Evolution
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0122603419 ISBN 13: 9780122603419
Verlag: Academic Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

John Fleagle has improved on his 1988 text by reconceptualizing chapters and by bringing new findings in functional and evolutionary approaches to bear on his synthesis of comparative primate data. The Second Edition provides a foundation upon which students can develop an understanding of our primate heritage. It features up-to-date information gained through academic training, laboratory experience and field research. This beautifully illustrated volume provides a comprehensive introductory text explaining the many aspects of primate biology and human evolution.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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@bul:* 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

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Verlag
Academic Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0122603419
ISBN 13 
9780122603419
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
616
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