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- Broadest possible perspective on early primate phylogeny and the adaptive uniqueness of the Order Primates
Part of the book series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects (DIPR)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Supraordinal Relationships of Primates and Their Time of Origin
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Adaptations and Evolution of the Cranium
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Adaptations and Evolution of the Postcranium
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Adaptations and Evolution of the Brain, Behavior, Physiology, and Ecology
About this book
This book updates, summarizes and synthesizes past and current research regarding the origin of the Order Primates. When did Primates arise? To what group of mammals are they most closely related? What is the functional and adaptive meaning of their constellation of derived characteristics? The papers in this volume examine hypotheses that have dominated our notions regarding early primate evolution and by coupling this with an emergent body of novel evidence due to new fossil discoveries and technological and methodological advances, provide a long overdue multidisciplinary reanalysis of the suite of derived life history, socioecological, neural, visual, circumorbital, locomotor, postural and masticatory specializations of the first primates. This integrative neontological and paleontological perspective is critical for understanding major behavioral and morphological transformations during the later evolution of higher primate clades. Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution is ideal for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and professionals in the fields of primatology, anthropology, mammalogy, and paleontology.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"The outgrowth of a conference on the adaptive/phylogenetic aspects of the group’s origin, this book includes 23 chapters in four sections. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers." (E. Delson, CHOICE, Vol. 45 (2), 2007)
"Primate Origins is a weighty tome, both literally and figuratively. … The book derives from an international symposium on primate origins … . Space prohibits me from elaborating further upon the numerous merits of this fine volume. It would make an excellent foundation for graduate-level seminars on primate origins. All 1.3 kg of it deserves to be read and pondered by serious students of primate evolution." (Chris Beard, International Journal of Primatology, Vol. 28, 2007)
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
Matthew J. Ravosa, Marian Dagosto
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution
Editors: Matthew J. Ravosa, Marian Dagosto
Series Title: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-33507-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-30335-2Published: 14 November 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-7893-6Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-33507-0Published: 05 January 2007
Series ISSN: 1574-3489
Series E-ISSN: 1574-3497
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 829
Topics: Anthropology, Paleontology, Zoology