Primate adaptation and evolution /

Main Author: Fleagle, John G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Diego : Academic Press, ©1999.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Adaptation, evolution, and systematics
  • The primate body
  • Primate lives
  • Prosimians
  • New World anthropoids
  • Old World monkeys
  • Apes and humans
  • Primate communities
  • Primate adaptations
  • The fossil record
  • Primate origins
  • Fossil prosimians
  • Early anthropoids
  • Fossil platyrrhines
  • Fossil apes
  • Fossil Old World monkeys
  • Hominids, the bipedal primates
  • Patterns in primate evolution.