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Title Shaping primate evolution : form, function, and behavior / edited by Fred Anapol, Rebecca Z. German, Nina G. Jablonski
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 426 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 40
Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 40.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Preface: shaping primate evolution; 1 Charles Oxnard: an appreciation; References; 2 The ontogeny of sexual dimorphism: the implications of longitudinal vs. cross-sectional data for studying heterochrony in mammals; 3 Advances in the analysis of form and pattern: facial growth in African colobines; 4 Cranial variation among the Asian colobines; 5 Craniometric variation in early Homo compared to modern gorillas: a population-thinking approach
Summary Shaping Primate Evolution is a state-of-the-art book on how form is described in primate biology, and the consequences of form for function and behavior. Covering cellular morphometrics through to the primate evolutionary ecology and written by leading researchers, it will be a must-have volume for all functional morphologists
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Primates -- Evolution.
Primates -- Morphology
Animal behavior.
Evolution (Biology)
Primates -- physiology
Evolution
Behavior, Animal
Biological Evolution
evolution.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Primatology.
NATURE -- Animals -- Primates.
Evolution (Biology)
Animal behavior
Primates -- Evolution
Primates -- Morphology
Form Electronic book
Author Anapol, Fred Charles
German, Rebecca Z.
Jablonski, Nina G
ISBN 9780511193637
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