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Reconstructing Behavior in the Primate Fossil Record (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002)
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Reconstructing Behavior in the Primate Fossil Record (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002)
Series: Advances in Primatology
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This volume brings together a series of papers that address the
topic of reconstructing behavior in the primate fossil record. The
literature devoted to reconstructing behavior in extinct species is
ovelWhelming and very diverse. Sometimes, it seems as though
behavioral reconstruction is done as an afterthought in the
discussion section of papers, relegated to the status of informed
speculation. But recent years have seen an explosion in studies of
adaptation, functional anatomy, comparative sociobiology, and
development. Powerful new comparative methods are now available on
the internet. At the same time, we face a rapidly growing fossil
record that offers more and more information on the morphology and
paleoenvironments of extinct species. Consequently, inferences of
behavior in extinct species have become better grounded in
comparative studies of living species and are becoming increas
ingly rigorous. We offer here a series of papers that review broad
issues related to reconstructing various aspects of behavior from
very different types of evi dence. We hope that in so doing, the
reader will gain a perspective on the various types of evidence
that can be brought to bear on reconstructing behavior, the
strengths and weaknesses of different approaches, and, perhaps, new
approaches to the topic. We define behavior as broadly as we can
including life-history traits, locomotion, diet, and social
behavior, giving the authors considerable freedom in choosing what,
exactly, they wish to explore."
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