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Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution (Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects) by Matthew J. Ravosa and Marian Dagosto is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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.

Who reads Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution (Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects)?

Author

Matthew J. Ravosa and Marian Dagosto

Publisher

New York, NY: Springer

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780387303352

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Science, Sociology