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New World Monkeys - The Evolutionary Odyssey (Hardcover)
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New World Monkeys - The Evolutionary Odyssey (Hardcover)
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A comprehensive account of the origins, evolution, and behavior of
South and Central American primates New World Monkeys brings to
life the beauty of evolution and biodiversity in action among South
and Central American primates, who are now at risk. These
tree-dwelling rainforest inhabitants display an unparalleled
variety in size, shape, hands, feet, tails, brains, locomotion,
feeding, social systems, forms of communication, and mating
strategies. Primatologist Alfred Rosenberger, one of the foremost
experts on these mammals, explains their fascinating adaptations
and how they came about. New World Monkeys provides a dramatic
picture of the sixteen living genera of New World monkeys and a
fossil record that shows that their ancestors have lived in the
same ecological niches for up to 20 million years-only to now find
themselves imperiled by the extinction crisis. Rosenberger also
challenges the argument that these primates originally came to
South America from Africa by floating across the Atlantic on a raft
of vegetation some 45 million years ago. He explains that they are
more likely to have crossed via a land bridge that once connected
Western Europe and Canada at a time when many tropical mammals
transferred between the northern continents. Based on the most
current findings, New World Monkeys offers the first synthesis of
decades of fieldwork and laboratory and museum research conducted
by hundreds of scientists.
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