Primate Adaptation and Evolution
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Primate Adaptation and Evolution, Third Edition, is a thorough revision of the text of choice for courses in primate evolution. The book retains its grounding in the extant primate groups as the best way to understand the fossil trail and the evolution of these modern forms. However, this coverage is now streamlined, making reference to the many new and excellent books on living primate ecology and adaptation – a field that has burgeoned since the first edition of Primate Adaptation and Evolution.
By drawing out the key features of the extant families and referring to more detailed texts, the author sets the scene and also creates space for a thorough updating of the exciting developments in primate palaeontology – and the reconstruction through early hominid species – of our own human origins. This updated version covers recent developments in primate paleontology and the latest taxonomy, and includes over 200 new illustrations and revised evolutionary trees.
This text is ideal for undergraduate and post-graduate students studying the evolution and functional ecology of primates and early fossil hominids.
Key Features
- Long-awaited revision of the standard student text on primate evolution
- Full coverage of newly discovered fossils and the latest taxonomy
- Over 200 new illustrations and revised evolutionary trees
Readership
Undergraduate and Post-graduate students studying the evolution and functional ecology of primates and early fossil hominids. Primatologists, Evolutionary Biologists, Palaeontologists. Physical Anthropologists, Social Scientists and the Lay Public
Table of Contents
IFC
Preface
Chapter 1. Adaptation, Evolution, and Systematics
Adaptation
Evolution
Phylogeny
Taxonomy and Systematics
References
Chapter 2. The Primate Body
Primate Anatomy
Size
Cranial Anatomy
The Brain and Senses
The Trunk and Limbs
Soft Tissues
Growth and Development
References
Chapter 3. Primate Lives
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
Chapter 4. The Prosimians: Lemurs, Lorises, Galagos and Tarsiers
Strepsirrhines
Malagasy Strepsirrhines
Subfossil Malagasy strepsirrhines
Adaptive Radiation of Malagasy Primates
Galagos and Lorises
Adaptive Radiation of Galagos and Lorises
Phyletic Relationships of Strepsirrhines
Haplorhines
References
Chapter 5. New World Anthropoids
Primate Grades and Clades
Anatomy of Higher Primates
Platyrrhines
Pitheciids
Atelids
Cebids
Callitrichines
Adaptive Radiation of Platyrrhines
Phyletic Relationships of Platyrrhines
References
Chapter 6. Old World Monkeys
Catarrhine Anatomy
Cercopithecoids
Cercopithecines
Colobines
Adaptive Radiation of Old World Monkeys
Phyletic Relationships of Old World Monkeys
References
Chapter 7. Apes and Humans
Hominoids
Adaptive Radiation of Hominoids
Phyletic Relationships of Hominoids
References
Chapter 8. Primate Communities and Biogeography
Primate Biogeography
References
Chapter 9. Primate Adaptations
Effects of Size
Adaptations to Diet
Primate Sensory Adaptations
Locomotor Adaptations
Locomotor Compromises
Locomotion, Posture, and Ecology
Anatomical Correlates of Social Organization
Brains, Behavior, and Ecology
Adaptation and Phylogeny
References
Chapter 10. The Fossil Record
Geological Time
Molecular Dating of Phylogeny
Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift
Paleoclimate
Fossils and Fossilization
Paleoenvironments
Reconstructing Behavior
Paleobiogeography
References
Chapter 11. Primate Origins
Euarchontans – Primates and Other Mammals
Tree Shrews
Flying Lemurs
Plesiadapiforms
Adaptive Radiation of Plesiadapiforms
Plesiadapiforms and Primates
Primates Among the Archonta
The Adaptive Origin of Primates
References
Chapter 12. Fossil Prosimians
The First Modern Primates
Adapoids
Notharctids
Asiadapids
Caenopithecids
Adapids
Sivaladapids
Other Asian Adapoids
Azibiids, Djebelemurids, and Plesiopithecus: North African Stem Strepsirrhines?
Fossil Lorises and Galagos
Adapoids and Strepsirrhines?
Omomyoids
Omomyoids, Tarsiers, and Haplorhines
Adaptive Radiations and Biogeography of Fossil Prosimians
Origin and Early Evolution of Primates
References
Chapter 13. Early Anthropoids
The Oligocene
Early Anthropoids from Africa and Arabia
Phyletic Relationships
Eocene Anthropoids from Asia
Early Anthropoid Adaptations
Phyletic Relationships of Early Anthropoids
Prosimian Origins of Anthropoids
References
Chapter 14. Fossil Platyrrhines
The Platyrrhine Fossil Record
The Earliest Platyrrhines
The Patagonian Platyrrhines
A More Modern Community
Late Miocene Amazonian Monkeys
Pleistocene Platyrrhines
Caribbean Primates
Summary of Fossil Platyrrhines
Platyrrhine Origins
References
Chapter 15. Primitive Catarrhines and Fossil Apes
Miocene Epoch
Middle-Late Oligocene Primitive Catarrhines from Arabia and Africa
Early and Middle Miocene ‘Apes’ from Africa
Phyletic Relationships of Proconsuloids and other African Miocene Apes
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
Chapter 16. Fossil Old World Monkeys
Victoriapithecids: The Earliest Old World Monkeys
Fossil Cercopithecids
Fossil Cercopithecines
Fossil Colobines
Eurasian Colobines
Fossil Record of Cercopithecoids
References
Chapter 17. Fossil Hominins, the Bipedal Primates
Pliocene Epoch
Early Hominin Adaptations and Hominin Origins
Postcranial Adaptations
Phyletic Relationships of Early Hominins
Pleistocene Epoch
Human Phylogeny
Hominin Evolution in Perspective
References
Chapter 18. Patterns in Primate Evolution
Primate Adaptive Radiations
Adaptation and Phylogeny
Patterns in Primate Phylogeny
Primate Extinctions
Limiting Primate Extinctions
References
Glossary
Appendix 1. Classification of the Order Primates
Genera in bold contain extant members
Bibliography
Chapter 1: Further Reading
Chapter 2: Further Reading
Chapter 3: Further Reading
Chapter 4: Further Reading
Chapter 5: Further Reading
Chapter 6: Further Reading
Chapter 8: Further Reading
Chapter 9: Further Reading
Chapter 10: Further Reading
Chapter 11: Further Reading
Chapter 12: Further Reading
Chapter 13: Further Reading
Chapter 14: Further Reading
Chapter 15: Further Reading
Chapter 16: Further Reading
Chapter 17: Further Reading
Chapter 18: Further Reading
Index
IBC
Details
- No. of pages:
- 464
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © Academic Press 2013
- Published:
- 28th March 2013
- Imprint:
- Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN:
- 9780123786326
- eBook ISBN:
- 9780123786333
About the Author
John Fleagle
John Fleagle is a primatologist whose research combines field studies and functional morpho-logical analysis. He is interested in the adaptive radiation of primates during the last 50 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
State University of New York, Stony Brook, United States
Reviews
"...an indispensible reference and must-have textbook for students and scholars with an interest in the evolutionary history of the primates...Hats off to Fleagle for producing a superb book that every primatologist needs and only he could write."--The Quarterly Review of Biology, Primate Adaptation and Evolution, Third Edition
"Fleagle has revised and rewritten each chapter, redone all the tables, added many new figures, and replaced almost all the references. One of the changes is that he now uses a suite of criteria to estimate body mass from fossil skeletons, rather than the single formula he formerly used."--Reference and Research Book News, August 2013
Reviews of the First Edition
"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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