Primate origins and evolution : a phylogenetic reconstruction
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Primate origins and evolution : a phylogenetic reconstruction
Chapman and Hall, 1990
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Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This thoroughly documented synthesis on primate evolution, aims to combine the major features of recent studies of primate evolution with classical anatomical information and hence provide an overall picture, with the emphasis on how evidence is sifted and assessed. In recent years there has been increasing emphasis on functional aspects, using laboratory techniques and broad field studies to relate behaviour to ecology. But there has also been much analysis of chromosomal evidence and biochemical features, producing a new framework for considering primate evolution and giving a new impetus to phylogenetic reconstruction.
Table of Contents
- A survey of living primates
- the primate fossil record
- classification and phylogenetic reconstruction
- adaptive radiation of mammals
- are tree-shrews primates?
- primate diets and dentitions
- the skull and major sense organs
- evolution of the primate central nervous system
- primate reproductive biology
- primate locomoter patterns
- evidence from chromosomes and proteins
- a provisional synthesis.
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