Food Acquisition and Processing in Primates

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Ecological Diversity and Food Acquisition

   1. Front Matter

      Pages xiii-xiii

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   2. Primates: Their Niche Structure and Habitats

      • Malcolm Coe

      Pages 1-32

   3. Environmental Grain, Niche Diversification and Feeding Behaviour in Primates

      • Suzanne Ripley

      Pages 33-72

   4. Body Size, Brain Size and Feeding Strategies

      • R. D. Martin

      Pages 73-103

   5. Primate Locomotion and Diet

      • John G. Fleagle

      Pages 105-117

   6. Habitat Richness, Foraging Range and Diet in Chimpanzees and Some Other Primates

      • Adriaan Kortlandt

      Pages 119-159

   7. The Adaptive Capacities of the Hanuman Langur and the Categorizing of Diet

      • Paul Winkler

      Pages 161-166

   8. Subcategorizing Foods in Primates

      • M. G. M. van Roosmalen

      Pages 167-175

   9. Food Acquisition and Processing as a Function of Plant Chemistry

      • Peter G. Waterman

      Pages 177-211

3. Food Processing in Living Primates

   1. Front Matter

      Pages N3-N3

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   2. Diet and Gut Morphology in Primates

      • David J. Chivers, C. M. Hladik

      Pages 213-230

   3. Comparative Functional Morphology of Maximum Mandibular Opening (Gape) in Primates

      • Richard J. Smith

      Pages 231-255

   4. Functional Aspects of Primate Jaw Morphology

      • Karen Hiiemae

      Pages 257-281

   5. Chewing It over: Basic Principles of Food Breakdown

      • P. W. Lucas, D. A. Luke

      Pages 283-301

   6. Tooth Morphology and Dietary Specialization

      • Wolfgang Maier

      Pages 303-330

   7. Prediction of Primate Diets from Molar Wear Patterns

      • Christine M. Janis

      Pages 331-340

   8. The Microstructure of Primate Dental Enamel

      • Alan Boyde, Lawrence Martin

      Pages 341-367

   9. Stress-Strength Relationships in the Mandibles of Hominoids

      • B. Demes, H. Preuschoft, J. E. A. Wolff

      Pages 369-390

   10. A Theoretical Approach to Solve the Chin Problem

       • Johannes E. A. Wolff

       Pages 391-405

This book results from a two-day symposium and three-day workshop held in Cambridge between March 22nd and March 26th 1982 and sponsored by the Primate Society of Great Britain and the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. More than 100 primatologists attended the symposium and some 35 were invited to participate in the workshop. Speakers from Prance, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa and the U. S. A. , as weIl as the U. K. , were invited to contribute. In recent years feeling had strengthened that primatologists in Europe did not gather together sufficiently often. Distinctive tradit­ ions in primatology have developed in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy and the U. K. in particular, and it was feIt that attempts to blend them could only benefit primatology. Furthermore, studies of primate ecology, behaviour, anatomy, physiology and evolution have reached the points where further advances depend on inter-disciplinary collaboration. It was resolved to arrange a regular series of round­ table discussions on primate biology in Europe at the biennial meeting of the German Society for Anthropology and Human Genetics in Heidel­ berg in September 1979, where Holger Preuschoft organised sessions on primate ecology and anatomy. In June 1980 Michel Sakka convened a most effective working group in Paris to discuss cranial morphology and evolution. In 1982 it was the turn of the U. K.

• anatomy
• ecology
• food
• genetics
• physiology
• processing

• University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England

  David J. Chivers, Alan Bilsborough

• The Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London, England

  Bernard A. Wood

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