Daris R Swindler

Introduction to the Primates

Illustrator: Curtis, Linda E

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive guide to the evolutionary history of the world's prosimians, monkeys, and apes--and of humankind's interactions with them. This account of 65 million years of adaptation and evolution concludes with a chapter on the threat that HOMO SAPIENS now pose to the survival of the world's nonhuman primates. 42 photos. 72 drawings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 153mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780295977041
• ISBN-10: 0295977043
• Artikelnr.: 22145308

Autorenporträt

Daris R Swindler. Illustrated by Linda E. Curtis

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Acknowlegments
1) Monkeys and Apes in History
2) Classification and Distribution in Living Primates
3) Blood Groups, Chromosomes, and DNA
4) The Skull
5) Teeth, Diet, and Digestion
6) The Brain and Special Senses
7) The Skeleton and Locomotion
8) Growth and Development
9) Social Groups and Primate Behavior
10) Fossil Primates
11) Primate Conservation
Glossary
Bibliography
Index