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Comparative Biology and Evolutionary Relationships of Tree Shrews (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980)
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Comparative Biology and Evolutionary Relationships of Tree Shrews (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980)
Series: Advances in Primatology
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Tree shrews are small-bodied, scansorial, squirrel-like mammals
that occupy a wide range of arboreal, semi-arboreal, and forest
floor niches in Southeast Asia and adjacent islands. Comparative
aspects of tree shrew biology have been the subject of extensive
investigations during the past two decades. These studies were
initiated in part because of the widely accepted belief that
tupaiids are primitive primates, and, as such, might provide
valuable insight into the evolutionary origin of complex patterns
of primate behavior, locomotion, neurobiology, and reproduction.
During the same period, there has been a renewed interest in the
methodology of phylogenetic reconstruction and in the use of data
from a variety of biological disciplines to test or formulate
hypotheses of evolutionary relationships. In particular, interest
in the com parative and systematic biology of mammals has focused
on analysis of phy logenetic relationships among Primates and a
search for their closest relatives. Assessment of the possible
primate affinities of tree shrews has comprised an important part
of these studies, and a considerable amount of dental, cranio
skeletal, neuroanatomical, reproductive, developmental, and
molecular evi dence has been marshalled to either corroborate or
refute hypotheses of a special tupaiid-primate relationship. These
contrasting viewpoints have re sulted from differing
interpretations of the basic data, as well as alternative
approaches to the evolutionary analysis of data."
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