Primate Adaptation and Evolution

John Fleagle has improved on his 1988 text by reconceptualizing chapters and by bringing new findings in functional and evolutionary approaches to bear on his synthesis of comparative primate data. The Second Edition provides a foundation upon which students can develop an understanding of our primate heritage. It features up-to-date information gained through academic training, laboratory experience and field research. This beautifully illustrated volume provides a comprehensive introductory text explaining the many aspects of primate biology and human evolution. It provides up-to-date information about many aspects of primate biology and evolution. It contains a completely new chapter on primate communities, and presents totally revised chapters on primate origins, early anthropoids, and fossil platyrrhines. It includes an updated glossary, new illustrations, and a revised Classification of Order Primates. It succeeds as the best introductory text on primate evolution because it synthesizes and allows access to primary literature.

ISBN 0122603419   Pages 596 ISBN13 9780122603419 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc   Weight (grammes) 1334 Imprint Academic Press Inc   Published in San Diego Format Hardback   Previous ISBN 9780122603402 Publication date 21 Sep 1998   Height (mm) 235 Library of Congress 98087186   Width (mm) 191 DEWEY 599.8138   Spine width (mm) 46 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		Tables & Illustrations
		Preface
1		Adaptation, Evolution, and Systematics
2		The Primate Body
3		Primate Lives
4		Prosimians
5		New World Anthropoids
6		Old World Monkeys
7		Apes and Humans
8		Primate Communities
9		Primate Adaptation
10		The Fossil Record
11		Primate Origins
12		Fossil Prosimians
13		Early Anthropoids
14		Fossil Platyrrhines
15		Fossil Apes
16		Fossil Old World Monkeys
17		Hominids, the Bipedal Primates
18		Patterns in Primate Evolution
		Glossary
		Classification of Order Primates
		Index

Reviews of the First Edition "Fleagle's book...is a tour de force as well as a tour d'horizon of the primate order...Fleagle's book fills a long-standing need for a comprehensive and up-to-date introductory text in its field." --NATURE "Just occasionally in academic life there comes together in one person research ability, industry, and the willingness to communicate. This is indeed the case for John Fleagle's textbook. An admirable book that deserves the success that it will undoubtedly achieve." --BIOLOGY AND SOCIETY "Professional primatologists and students alike will be delighted with John Fleagle's Primate Adaptation and Evolution, which will brilliantly refresh any university reading list in the subject. For many university courses on primate biology, it will undoubtedly become a primary text." --THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT "This is an excellent book on primate comparative anatomy, behavioral ecology, and paleontology." --AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST "John Fleagle has done it! Primate Adaptation and Evolution is the readable and "seeable," but still traditional, textbook that my students have been waiting for someone to write." --AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY "This book will be welcomed with a sigh of relief in departments of anatomy and biological anthropology world-wide. Here at last is an up-to-date, comprehensive and reliable textbook for courses in primate and human evolution... It will, and should, stand as a major teaching resource for primate evolution for some years to come. It is an excellent text and a reflection of Fleagle's major contributions to our field." --PRIMATE EYE "This volume is basically designed as an advanced undergraduate or graduate textbook but is so well illustrated and organized that it can also be used as a general source or reference for less specialized readers. No other single work can match the range of its topics, which matches the interests of its author, one of the leading students of primate paleontology, behavior, morphology, and evolution." --CHOICE

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