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The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates (Paperback)
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The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates (Paperback)
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These original contributions on the evolution of primates and the
techniques for studying the subject cover an enormous range of
material and incorporate the work of specialists from many
different fields, showing the necessity of a multidisciplinary
approach to problems of primate morphology and phylogeny.
Collectively, they demonstrate the concerns and methods of leading
contemporary workers in this and related fields. Each contributor
shows his way of attacking fundamental problems of evolutionary
primatology.The range of findings in this book include new clues to
the evolution of the middle ear and the subsistence behavior of
early primates, a persuasive critique of the Smith-Jones hypothesis
that many features of primate cranial morphology are adaptations to
the special vicissitudes of arboreal habitation, the remarkable
association of relative muscle mass in the hands and feet of
catarrhine primates with the particularities of prehensile
behaviors, the wealth of behavioral data that may be obtained by
the concentrated study of certain primates in the vicinity of
waterholes, the striking differences between inferences about the
same behavioral phenomena that are based on long-term as opposed to
short-term observations of one primate social group, and the
strategy of sophisticated mathematical techniques for elucidating
biomechanical, evolutionary, and behavioral problems.Each chapter
conveys the status and progress of research in these and other
particular areas of special interest, pointing the way toward
further clarification of the functional biology and phylogeny of
primates through the application of relatively new techniques or
the comprehensive employment of available methods. No attempt is
made to smooth over controversial points of view, or to endorse a
single uniform model of primate evolution. This work will be an
important reference for evolutionary and physical anthropologists,
evolutionary biologists, comparative morphologists, human
anatomists, behavioralists, and students of evolution.
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