MORPHOLOGY OF THE PRIMATES AND HUMAN EVOLUTION

It discusses the theories of biological evolution, the origin of the primates, the morphology of the living primates, the social behaviour of the nonhuman primates, and the phylogenetic relationship between the large apes and man on the basis of immunological and molecular analyses. The text focuses on the Miocene hominoids and their role in the subsequent developments of the hominids. It discusses three theories the Single Lineage Theory, the Double Lineage Theory, and the Triple Lineage T...