A unique reconstruction of the paleobiology of fossil non-human primates and their key role in inferring evolutionary processes on earth.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Susan Cachel is Professor of Physical Anthropology at Rutgers University. She is on the Executive Committee of the Rutgers Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (CHES) since 2010 and a member of the graduate interdisciplinary Quaternary Studies Program at Rutgers since 2000. She has taught and performed research at the Koobi Fora Field School in northern Kenya, and she is currently a research associate of the Kenya National Museums (Nairobi). She was recently elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for 'incisive contributions to hominization theory, the role of nutritional fat in human occupation of high latitudes, and primate evolution'. Her previous title, Primate and Human Evolution, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2006.
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Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: primates in evolutionary time 2. Primate taxonomy 3. Fossils and fossilization 4. The world of the past 5. The lifeways of extinct animals 6. Evolutionary processes and the pattern of primate evolution 7. Primate origins 8. The Paleocene primate radiation 9. The Eocene primate radiation 10. The Malagasy primate radiation 11. The Oligocene bottleneck 12. Rise of the anthropoids 13. The platyrrhine radiation 14. The Miocene hominoid radiation 15. The cercopithecoid radiation 16. Late Cenozoic climate changes 17. Conclusions References Index.
Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: primates in evolutionary time 2. Primate taxonomy 3. Fossils and fossilization 4. The world of the past 5. The lifeways of extinct animals 6. Evolutionary processes and the pattern of primate evolution 7. Primate origins 8. The Paleocene primate radiation 9. The Eocene primate radiation 10. The Malagasy primate radiation 11. The Oligocene bottleneck 12. Rise of the anthropoids 13. The platyrrhine radiation 14. The Miocene hominoid radiation 15. The cercopithecoid radiation 16. Late Cenozoic climate changes 17. Conclusions References Index.
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