Primate Adaptation and Evolution
- 4th Edition - December 19, 2024
- Authors: John G. Fleagle, Andrea L. Baden, Christopher C. Gilbert
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 8 0 9 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 8 1 0 - 4
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… Read more
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Request a sales quotePrimate 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
Undergraduate and graduate students studying the evolution and functional ecology of primates and early fossil hominids, as well as primatologists, evolutionary biologists, palaeontologists, physical anthropologists, and social scientists
- Title of Book
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Adaptation, Evolution, and Systematics
- Abstract
- Adaptation
- Evolution
- Phylogeny
- Taxonomy and Systematics
- References
- Further Reading
- Chapter 2. The Primate Body
- Abstract
- Primate Anatomy
- Cranial Anatomy
- The Brain and Senses
- The Trunk and Limbs
- Soft Tissues
- References
- Further Reading
- Chapter 3. Primate Lives
- Abstract
- Primate Habitats
- Habitat Use
- Activity Patterns
- A Primate Day
- Primate Diets
- Locomotion
- Social Life
- Why Primates Live in Groups
- Primate Life Histories
- Primate Communities
- References
- Further Reading
- Chapter 4. The Prosimians: Lemurs, Lorises, Galagos, and Tarsiers
- Abstract
- Strepsirrhines
- Malagasy Strepsirrhines
- Adaptive Radiation of Malagasy Primates
- Galagos and Lorises
- Adaptive Radiation of Galagos and Lorises
- Phyletic Relationships Among Strepsirrhines
- Haplorhines
- Tarsiers
- References
- Further Reading
- Chapter 5. New World Anthropoids
- Abstract
- Primate Grades and Clades
- Anatomy of Anthropoids
- Platyrrhines
- Pitheciids
- Atelids
- Cebids
- Cebinae
- Aotines
- Callitrichines
- Tamarins
- Marmosets
- Adaptive Radiation of Platyrrhines
- Phyletic Relationships of Platyrrhines
- References
- Further Reading
- Chapter 6. Old World Monkeys
- Abstract
- Catarrhine Anatomy
- Cercopithecoids
- Colobines
- African Colobines
- Adaptive Radiation of Old World Monkeys
- Phyletic Relationships of Old World Monkeys
- References
- Further Reading
- Chapter 7. Apes and Humans
- Abstract
- Hominoids
- Adaptive Radiation of Hominoids
- Phyletic Relationships of Hominoids
- References
- Further Reading
- Chapter 8. Primate Communities and Biogeography
- Abstract
- Primate Biogeography
- References
- Further Reading
- Chapter 9. Primate Adaptations
- Abstract
- Effects of Size
- Adaptations to Diet
- Digestive Tract Adaptations
- Primate Sensory Adaptations
- Locomotor Adaptations
- Locomotor Compromises
- Locomotion, Posture, and Ecology
- Anatomical Correlates of Social Organization
- Brains, Behavior, and Ecology
- Adaptation and Phylogeny
- References
- Further Reading
- Chapter 10. The Fossil Record
- Abstract
- Geological Time
- Molecular Dating
- Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift
- Paleoclimate
- Fossils and Fossilization
- Paleoenvironments
- Reconstructing Behavior
- Paleobiogeography
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 11. Primate Origins
- Abstract
- Euarchontans – Primates and Other Mammals
- Treeshrews
- Colugos (Flying Lemurs)
- Plesiadapiforms
- Purgatoriids
- Microsyopids
- Micromomyids
- Picromomyids
- Paromomyids
- Palaechthonids
- Picrodontids
- Plesiadapids
- Carpolestids
- Saxonellids
- Toliapinids
- Adaptive Radiation of Plesiadapiforms
- Plesiadapiforms and Primates
- Primates Among the Euarchonta
- The Adaptive Origin of Primates
- References
- Further Reading
- Chapter 12. Fossil Prosimians
- Abstract
- The First Modern Primates
- Adapoids
- Notharctids
- Cercamoniids
- Asiadapids
- Caenopithecids
- Adapids
- Sivaladapids
- Other Asian Adapoids
- Amphipithecids
- Azibiids, Djebelemurids, and Plesiopithecus: North African Stem Strepsirrhines?
- Fossil Lorises and Galagos
- Adapoids and Strepsirrhines
- Omomyoids
- Teilhardina, Archicebus, and Baataromomys
- Omomyids
- Anaptomorphines
- Omomyines
- Microchoerids
- Asian Omomyoids
- Tarsiids
- Omomyoids, Tarsiers, and Haplorhines
- Adaptive Radiations and Biogeography of Fossil Prosimians
- Origin and Early Evolution of Primates
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 13. Early Anthropoids
- Abstract
- The Oligocene
- Early Anthropoids From Africa and Arabia
- Parapithecoids
- Proteopithecids
- Propliopithecids
- Oligopithecids
- Nosmips
- Afrotarsiids
- Eocene Stem Anthropoids From Asia
- The Biogeography of Early Anthropoid Evolution
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 14. Fossil Platyrrhines
- Abstract
- The Platyrrhine fossil record
- The Earliest Fossil Primates in South America
- The Earliest Platyrrhines
- The Patagonian Platyrrhines
- A More Modern Community
- A Fossil Monkey From Panama
- Fossil Primates From Amazonia
- Pleistocene Platyrrhines
- Caribbean Primates
- Summary of Fossil Platyrrhines
- Platyrrhine Origins
- References
- Further Reading
- Chapter 15. Primitive Catarrhines and Fossil Apes
- Abstract
- Miocene Epoch
- Middle-Late Oligocene Primitive Catarrhines From Arabia and Africa
- Early and Middle Miocene Apes From Africa
- Proconsulids
- Later Miocene Hominoids
- Phyletic Relationships of Proconsuloids and Other African Miocene Apes
- Eurasian Pliopithecoids and Apes
- Pliopithecoids
- Hominidae
- Phylogenetic Relationships of Western Eurasian Apes
- Phyletic Relationships of Asian Apes
- The Evolution of Living Hominoids
- Evolution of Gibbons
- Evolution of the Orangutan
- Evolution of African Apes
- The Biogeography of Ape Evolution
- References
- Further Reading
- Chapter 16. Fossil Old World Monkeys
- Abstract
- The Earliest Old World Monkeys
- Fossil Cercopithecids
- Fossil Cercopithecines
- Fossil Colobines
- Eurasian Colobines
- Fossil Record of Cercopithecoids
- References
- Further Reading
- Chapter 17. Fossil Hominins, the Bipedal Primates
- Abstract
- Pliocene Epoch
- Early Hominin Adaptations and Hominin Origins
- Phyletic Relationships of Early Hominins
- Pleistocene Epoch
- Early Homo
- Adaptations of Homo erectus
- Homo sapiens as an Adaptive Radiation
- Human Phylogeny
- Hominin Evolution in Perspective
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 18. Patterns in Primate Evolution
- Abstract
- Primate Adaptive Radiations
- Body Size Changes
- Dietary Diversity
- Locomotor Diversity
- Adaptation and Phylogeny
- Patterns in Primate Phylogeny
- Primate Evolution at the Species Level
- Mosaic Evolution
- Primate Extinctions
- Limiting Primate Extinctions
- References
- Glossary
- Appendix 1. Classification of the Order Primates
- Genera in Bold Contain Extant Members
- Appendix 2. Timescale of Primate Evolution
- Index
- No. of pages: 466
- Language: English
- Edition: 4
- Published: December 19, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128158098
- eBook ISBN: 9780128158104
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John G. Fleagle
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, NY, USAAB
Andrea L. Baden
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, USA; The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, USACC
Christopher C. Gilbert
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, USA; The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, USARead Primate Adaptation and Evolution on ScienceDirect