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Primates and Their Relatives in Phylogenetic Perspective (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
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Primates and Their Relatives in Phylogenetic Perspective (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
Series: Advances in Primatology
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This book has the modest aim of bringing together methodological,
theo- retical, and empirical studies that bear on the phylogenetic
placement of primates and their relatives, and continues a
tradition started by Phylogeny of the Primates: A Multidisciplinary
Approach (edited by W. P. Luckett and F. S. Szalay; Plenum Press,
1975) and The Comparative Biology and Evolutionary Rela- tionships
of Tree Shrews (edited by W. P. Luckett, Plenum Press, 1980).
Although there are several recent compendia of studies of primate
relationships, most of these are exclusively concerned with the
internal arrangement of clades within the order, not with the place
of primates and their relatives on the eutherian cladogram.
Evolutionary theory predicts that primates must be more closely
related to some non primate mammals than to others, but a
continuing problem has been to find reliable procedures for
recovering historical relationships among taxa. Before the 1970s,
higher-level relationships among primates and euthe- rian mammals
that might be closely related to them were rarely treated in
detail. Outstanding exceptions, like Le Gros Clark's Antecedents of
Man, were just that-exceptions. (Clark himself essentially stopped
with making a case for tree shrews; he did not, for example,
explore whether bats and colugos were also related to primates. )
In the 1970s and 1980s, the rise of cladistic techniques and
advances in molecular methods began to transform primate
systematics.
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