Alfred L Rosenberger

Primates

An Introduction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to primatology. The book encourages students to study primates as integrated members of regional communities, ecologically, historically and evolutionarily..

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9781032189918
• ISBN-10: 1032189916
• Artikelnr.: 67825557

Autorenporträt

Alfred L. Rosenberger, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, USA, where he taught in the anthropology departments for more than a decade. Dr. Rosenberger is a Fulbright Fellow and an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has authored more than 100 articles and co-edited several volumes on living and fossil primates. Rosenberger's definitive book New World Monkeys: The Evolutionary Odyssey was published by Princeton University Press in 2020.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What is a Primate? 2. Arboreal Frugivory: The Primate Adaptive Zone 3. Madagascar: Lemurs 4. South America: New World Monkeys 5. Africa: Lorises
Galagos
Old World Monkeys
and Great Apes 6. Asia: Lorises
Tarsiers
Old World Monkeys
and Apes 7. Primate Communities Compared: Ecology
Morphology
and Behavior 8. The Primate Fossil Record: Highlights 9. Primates in Crisis