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Author : Caroline Harcourt,Bryan R. Sherwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Human evolution
ISBN : 1841030082
Author : Alejandro Estrada,Paul A. Garber,Mary S. M. Pavelka,LeAndra Luecke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387258720
The purpose of this volume is to present a comprehensive overview of recent advances in primate field research, ecology, and conservation biology in Mesoamerica. The overall goal of each contribution is to integrate newly collected field data with theoretical perspectives drawn from evolutionary biology, socioecology, biological anthropology, and conservation to identify how our current knowledge of primate behavior and ecology has moved beyond more traditional approaches. A corollary to this, and an important goal of the volume is to identify geographical regions and species for which we continue to lack sufficient information, to develop action plans for future research, and to identify areas for immediate conservation action. Despite many decades of primate research in Mesoamerica, much is still unknown concerning the basic ecology and behavior of these species, demography, current distribution, and conservation status of local populations, and the effectiveness of conservation policies on primate survivorship. Four major areas of research are the focus of the volume: Evolutionary Biology and Biogeography; Population Demography and Ecology; Behavior; and Conservation and Management Policies.
Author : Frans B. M. de Waal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780674033023
How did we become the linguistic, cultured, and hugely successful apes that we are? Our closest relatives--the other mentally complex and socially skilled primates--offer tantalizing clues. In Tree of Origin nine of the world's top primate experts read these clues and compose the most extensive picture to date of what the behavior of monkeys and apes can tell us about our own evolution as a species. It has been nearly fifteen years since a single volume addressed the issue of human evolution from a primate perspective, and in that time we have witnessed explosive growth in research on the subject. Tree of Origin gives us the latest news about bonobos, the make love not war apes who behave so dramatically unlike chimpanzees. We learn about the tool traditions and social customs that set each ape community apart. We see how DNA analysis is revolutionizing our understanding of paternity, intergroup migration, and reproductive success. And we confront intriguing discoveries about primate hunting behavior, politics, cognition, diet, and the evolution of language and intelligence that challenge claims of human uniqueness in new and subtle ways. Tree of Origin provides the clearest glimpse yet of the apelike ancestor who left the forest and began the long journey toward modern humanity.
Author : Matthew J. Ravosa,Marian Dagosto
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387335070
This book provides a novel focus on adaptive explanations for cranial and postcranial features and functional complexes, socioecological systems, life history patterns, etc. in early primates. It further offers a detailed rendering of the phylogenetic affinities of such basal taxa to later primate clades as well as to other early/recent mammalian orders. In addition to the strictly paleontological or systemic questions regarding Primate Origins, the editors concentrate on the adaptive significance of primate characteristics. Thus, the book provides the broadest possible perspective on early primate phylogeny and the adaptive uniqueness of the Order Primates.
Author : Adriaan Kortlandt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Human evolution
ISBN : OCLC:1132322
Author : Alfred L. Rosenberger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691189512
A comprehensive account of the origins, evolution, and behavior of South and Central American primates New World Monkeys brings to life the beauty of evolution and biodiversity in action among South and Central American primates, who are now at risk. These tree-dwelling rainforest inhabitants display an unparalleled variety in size, shape, hands, feet, tails, brains, locomotion, feeding, social systems, forms of communication, and mating strategies. Primatologist Alfred Rosenberger, one of the foremost experts on these mammals, explains their fascinating adaptations and how they came about. New World Monkeys provides a dramatic picture of the sixteen living genera of New World monkeys and a fossil record that shows that their ancestors have lived in the same ecological niches for up to 20 million years—only to now find themselves imperiled by the extinction crisis. Rosenberger also challenges the argument that these primates originally came to South America from Africa by floating across the Atlantic on a raft of vegetation some 45 million years ago. He explains that they are more likely to have crossed via a land bridge that once connected Western Europe and Canada at a time when many tropical mammals transferred between the northern continents. Based on the most current findings, New World Monkeys offers the first synthesis of decades of fieldwork and laboratory and museum research conducted by hundreds of scientists.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Primates
ISBN : 0511194196
Sexual Selection in Primates, which provides the first comprehensive summary of the various forms of communication and behaviour and their consequences, is aimed at graduates and researchers in primatology, animal behaviour, evolutionary biology and comparative psychology.
Author : Karen B. Strier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317345206
Primate Behavioral Ecology, described as “an engaging, cutting-edge exposition,” incorporates exciting new discoveries and the most up-to-date approaches in its introduction to the field and its applications of behavioral ecology to primate conservation. This unique, comprehensive, single-authored text integrates the basics of evolutionary, ecological, and demographic perspectives with contemporary noninvasive molecular and hormonal techniques to understand how different primates behave and the significance of these insights for primate conservation. Examples are drawn from the “classic” primate field studies and more recent studies on previously neglected species from across the primate order, illustrating the vast behavioral variation that we now know exists and the gaps in our knowledge that future studies will fill.
Author : Paul A. Garber,Alejandro Estrada,Julio Cesar Bicca-Marques,Eckhard W. Heymann,Karen B. Strier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387787053
This will be the first time a volume will be compiled focusing on South American monkeys as models to address and test critical issues in the study of nonhuman primates. In addition, the volume will serve an important compliment to the book on Mesoamerican primates recently published in the series under the DIPR book series. The book will be of interest to a broad range of scientists in various disciplines, ranging from primatology, to animal behavior, animal ecology, conservation biology, veterinary science, animal husbandry, anthropology, and natural resource management. Moreover, although the volume will highlight South American primates, chapters will not simply review particular taxa or topics. Rather the focus of each chapter is to examine the nature and range of primate responses to changes in their ecological and social environments, and to use data on South American monkeys to address critical theoretical questions in the study of primate behavior, ecology, and conservation. Thus, we anticipate that the volume will be widely read by a broad range of students and researchers interested in prosimians, New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, apes, humans, as well as animal behavior and tropical biology.
Author : Karen B. Strier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317327110
This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular and hormonal techniques to understand how different primates behave and the significance of these insights for primate conservation. Each chapter is organized around the major research themes in the field, with Strier emphasizing the interplay between theory, observations, and conservation issues. Examples are drawn from the "classic" primate field studies as well as more recent studies on previously neglected species, illustrating the vast behavioral variation that exists across the primate order. Primate Behavioral Ecology 5th Edition also examines how anthropogenic activities are negatively impacting primate populations, including a thorough analysis of behavioural plasticity and its implications. This fully updated new edition incorporates exciting new discoveries and the most up-to-date approaches in the field to provide an invaluable overview of the field of primate behavioral ecology and its applications to primate conservation. It is considered to be a “must read” for all students interested in primates.
Author : Serge Morand,Boris R. Krasnov,D. Timothy J. Littlewood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107037656
By joining phylogenetics and evolutionary ecology, this book explores the patterns of parasite diversity while revealing diversification processes.
Author : John G Fleagle,Christopher C. Gilbert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387738963
For nearly a half century, Dr. Simons has dominated the study of primate evolution. This volume summarizes the current state of knowledge in many aspects of primate and human evolution that have been studied by Simons and his colleagues and place it in a broader paleontological and historical perspective. The book contains the results of new research as well as reviews of many of the critical issues in primate and human evolution during the last half of the twentieth century.
Author : S. Seth
Publisher : M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8185880190
The book, New Perspectives in Anthropology, brings together information about many diverse attributes of MAN in an attempt to understand him in its entirely. As the subtlety and complexity of anthropology becomes better understood, the issues emerging from the integration of biology, behaviour and culture inter alia human evolution, primate behaviour and human variation shall become increasingly relevant and interesting.
Author : William H. Kimbel,Lawrence B. Martin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0306442973
In order to meld the facts of organic diversity with the continuity of the evolutionary process, this volume details the diversity of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches currently employed by primate evolutionary biologists and paleontologists. Specific coverage includes: species concepts and their role in evolutionary theory, the speciation process and the biology of species differences among living primates, and the problems of species recognition in the primate fossil record.
Author : Christine Langhoff
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783638870191
Essay from the year 2003 in the subject Biology - Evolution, grade: 1, Oxford Brookes University, language: English, abstract: Prosimians are a suborder of primates and include lemurs, lorises and tarsiers. Although specialised in many respects, living prosimians generally retain more primitive features than do anthropoids (the other suborder of primates); and in many aspects of teeth, skulls and limbs, they reserve a morphology similar to that found in primates of the Eocene epoch, 50 to 40 million years ago. These primitive features have led many scientists to believe that the study of prosimian behaviour might give us some insights into the behaviour of ancestral primates and primate origins. I am going to explore what has been the major ‘classic’ interpretation of the behaviour of the earliest primates in terms of activity rhythm, locomotion and social behaviour based on the study of modern prosimians and how more recent studies have changed our views on these. Further I am going to explore the major contending views for ecological factors that brought about prosimian origins.
