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1 online resource (534 pages) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Table of Contents -- I. Paleoprimatology -- 1. Paleobiology of the Earliest Primates -- 2. Hominoid Paleoprimatology -- 3. Progress and Problems in the Study of Early Man in Sub-Saharan Africa -- II. Cranial Morphology -- 4. Arboreal Adaptations and the Origin of the Order Primates -- 5. Analysis of Patterns of Variation in Crania of Recent Man -- III. Comparative Neurobiology and Endocasts -- 6. Evolution of Primate Brains: A Comparative Anatomical Investigation |
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7. Endocasts and Studies of Primate Brain Evolution8. Australopithecine Endocasts, Brain Evolution in the Hominoidea, and a Model of Hominid Evolution -- IV. Post Cranial Morphology -- 9. Evolution of the Hominoid Wrist -- 10. Vertebral Morphology of Fossil and Extant Primates -- 11. Tail Reduction in Macaca -- 12. Relative Mass of Cheiridial Muscles in Catarrhine Primates -- 13. Biomechanics of Human Posture and Locomotion: Perspectives from Electromyography -- 14. Functional Morphology of Primates: Some Mathematical and Physical Methods |
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15. The Use of Optical Data Analysis in Functional Morphology: Investigation of Vertebral Trabecular PatternsV. Aspects of Behavior and Ecology -- 16. The Behavior of Gray Langurs at a Ceylonese Waterhole -- 17. A Longitudinal Study of Social Behavior of Rhesus Monkeys -- 18. The Organization of Primate Societies: Longitudinal Studies of Captive Groups -- 19. Aping Monkeys with Mathematics -- References |
| Summary |
"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."--Provided by publisher |
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Print version record |
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Primates -- Congresses
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Evolution (Biology) -- Congresses
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Human evolution -- Congresses
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Evolution (Biology)
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Human evolution
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Primates
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351482523 |
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1351482521 |
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