The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates
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The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates

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The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates

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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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
ISBN
9781351482523
Edition
1

Index

Aardvark, 97
Abelson, R. P., 435, 437
Accessory olfactory bulb: see Bulbus olfactorius accessorius
Acheulian, 65, 375
Activity profiles, 410, 411
Adams, D. K., 452
Adapids, 6, 7, 32
Adapis, 119
Adaptive grades of primates, 421
Adaptive shifts, 97, 98; to diurnal, herbivorous mode, 119; of prey seizing functions of hand, 117
Aegyptopithecus zeuxis, 41, 43, 44, 45, 47, 181
Aeolopithecus chirobates, 33, 44, 46, 56
Aethechinus algirus, 167
Aggression: chasing, 368–69; control of, 414; intra-group, 197, 201, 369, 388, 407; reduction of, 197, 201; in rhesus, 384, 385, 421; at waterholes, 363, 364, 376
Aging, x, xx
Agriotherine bear, 66
Alarm calls, 118
Aldrich-Blake, P., 258, 357, 444
Allee, W. C., 104, 437
Allen, G. M., 246, 257, 437
Allen’s rule, 257
Allometry, xiv, 306; dental arcade, 117; formula, 156, 173; method, 156; orbital frontation, 111; orbital-margin convergence, 111; tarsal elongation, 118
Alouatta, 165, 172, 179, 182, 183, 184, 219, 233, 265, 266, 319, 356, 368, 380, 412, 413
Alouatta palliate, 356, 368
Alouatta seniculus, 167
Alouattinae, 54, 230, 232, 234, 235, 318
Alouattines: see Alouattinae
Altmann, J., 421, 424, 432, 437
Altmann, S. A., 368, 378, 394, 410, 421, 423, 424, 426, 432, 437
Amphipithecus, 33
Amygdaloid, 158, 168
Anaptomorphidae, 9, 29, 31
Anaptomorphids: see Anaptomorphidae
Ancepsoides, 17
Andrew, R. J., 114, 437
Andrews, C. W., 39, 437
Andrews,...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. I. Paleoprimatology
  9. II. Cranial Morphology
  10. III. Comparative Neurobiology and Endocasts
  11. IV. Postcranial Morphology
  12. V. Aspects of Behavior and Ecology
  13. References
  14. Index
  15. Plates—between pages 234 and 235