Introduction to the Primates

Autorentext
Daris R Swindler. Illustrated by Linda E. Curtis

Klappentext
A comprehensive guide to the evolutionary history of the world's prosimians, monkeys, and apes--and of humankind's interactions with them. This account of 65 million years of adaptation and evolution concludes with a chapter on the threat that HOMO SAPIENS now pose to the survival of the world's nonhuman primates. 42 photos. 72 drawings.

Zusammenfassung
A comprehensive but compact guide to the long evolutionary history of the world's prosimians, monkeys, and apes, and to the much shorter history of humankind's interactions with them

Inhalt
Foreword

Preface

Acknowlegments

1) Monkeys and Apes in History

2) Classification and Distribution in Living Primates

3) Blood Groups, Chromosomes, and DNA

4) The Skull

5) Teeth, Diet, and Digestion

6) The Brain and Special Senses

7) The Skeleton and Locomotion

8) Growth and Development

9) Social Groups and Primate Behavior

10) Fossil Primates

11) Primate Conservation

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

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