Primate Adaptation and Evolution

by John G. Fleagle, Andrea L. Baden, Christopher C. Gilbert

Overview

Primate Adaptation and Evolution, Fourth Edition provides key features of extant families and references to more detailed texts. The book sets the scene and creates space for a thorough updating of exciting developments in primate paleontology and a reconstruction through early hominid species of our own human origins. This updated version covers recent developments in primate paleontology, the latest taxonomy, and includes new visuals, including helpful illustrations and evolutionary trees. It is an ideal text for undergraduate and post-graduate students studying the evolution and functional ecology of primates and early fossil hominids.The book retains its grounding in the extant primate groups as the best way to understand the fossil trail and evolution of these modern forms. However, this coverage is now more streamlined, referring to the many new and excellent books on living primate ecology and adaptation - a field that has burgeoned since this book's first publication. - Includes over 200 new illustrations and revised evolutionary trees - Offers the latest information on primate physiology, isotopes and genetics - Discusses life history and dispersal patterns among species - Provides new genera and data on the behavior and ecology of New World monkeys - Presents the newest fossil discoveries, including platyrrhine and primitive catarrhine origins

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128158104
Publisher:	Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Publication date:	12/19/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	466
File size:	138 MB
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About the Author

John G. Fleagle is a primatologist whose research combines field studies and functional morphological analysis. He is interested in the adaptive radiation of primates during the last 56 million years. He has conducted paleobiological research in Egypt, Argentina, and Ethiopia and has studied living primates in Malaysia, Surinam, Brazil and Madagascar. Dr. Fleagle is a MacArthur Fellow.Andrea Baden is a primatologist whose research combines traditional field work with laboratory (genetic, hormone, nutrition) analyses to answer broad evolutionary questions about primate social and reproductive strategies. Her research focuses primarily on Malagasy strepsirrhines, including one of the only long-term studies of wild ruffed lemurs.Chris Gilbert is a primate morphologist and paleontologist broadly interested in primate evolution over the last 66 million years, with an emphasis on craniodental anatomy and phylogenetic systematics. He has conducted paleontological fieldwork in North America, Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, and India, as well as behavioral research on extant primates in Thailand and the Duke Lemur Center.

Table of Contents

1. Adaptation, Evolution, and Systematics2. The Primate Body3. Primate Lives4. The Prosimians – Lemurs, Lorises, Galagos, and Tarsiers5. New World Anthropoids6. Old World Monkeys7. Apes and Humans8. Primate Communities and Biogeography9. Primate Adaptation10. The Fossil Record11. Primate Origins12. Fossil Prosimians13. Early Anthropoids14. Fossil Platyrrhines15. Primate Catarrhines and Fossil Apes16. Fossil Old World Monkeys17. Fossil Hominins – Bipedal Primates18. Patterns in Primate Evolution

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Editorial Reviews

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"Fleagle's book...is a tour de force as well as a tour d'horizon of the primate order....Fleagle's book fills a long-standing need for a comprehensive and up-to-date introductory text in its field." —NATURE

"Just occasionally in academic life there comes together in one person research ability, industry, and the willingness to communicate. This is indeed the case for John Fleagle's textbook. An admirable book that deserves the success that it will undoubtedly achieve." —BIOLOGY AND SOCIETY


"Professional primatologists and students alike will be delighted with John Fleagle's Primate Adaptation and Evolution, which will brilliantly refresh any university reading list in the subject. For many university courses on primate biology, it will undoubtedly become a primary text." —THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT

"This is an excellent book on primate comparative anatomy, behavioral ecology, and paleontology." —AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST

"John Fleagle has done it! Primate Adaptation and Evolution is the readable and "seeable," but still traditional, textbook that my students have been waiting for someone to write." —AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

"This book will be welcomed with a sigh of relief in departments of anatomy and biological anthropology world-wide. Here at last is an up-to-date, comprehensive and reliable textbook for courses in primate and human evolution.... It will, and should, stand as a major teaching resource for primate evolution for some years to come. It is an excellent text and a reflection of Fleagle's major contributions to our field." —PRIMATE EYE

"This volume is basically designed as an advanced undergraduate or graduate textbook but is so well illustrated and organized that it can also be used as a general source or reference for less specialized readers. No other single work can match the range of its topics, which matches the interests of its author, one of the leading students of primate paleontology, behavior, morphology, and evolution." —CHOICE

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