Introduction to the Primates by Daris R Swindler

Introduction to the Primates by Daris R Swindler

A comprehensive but compact guide to the long evolutionary history of the world's prosimians, monkeys, and apes, and to the much shorter history of humankind's interactions with them

"A succinct and highly readable exposition of the past and present members of the zoological Order PrimatesThe book invites the reader to appreciate the diversity of primates and the similarities between human and nonhuman primates that are a result of our shared evolutionary heritage." - Nina Jablonski, California Academy of Sciences

Swindler, Daris R.: - Daris R. Swindler is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle. His main research interests are in primate anatomy and dental studies of early primate dental development, comparative dental morphology and odontometrics of living and fossil primates, and Pacific dental anthropology. He has written or edited nine previous books including An Atlas of Primate Gross Anatomy: Baboon, Chimpanzee, and Man (with C. D. Wood, 1973), The Dentition of Living Primates (1976), Systematics, Evolution and Anatomy: Comparative Primate Biology Volume 1 (with J. Erwin, 1986), Paleontologia Umana, Evoluzione, Addamento, Cultura (with A. Drusini, 1996), and Introduction to the Primates (1998).

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ISBN 13	9780295977041
ISBN 10	0295977043
Titel	Introduction to the Primates
Autor	Daris R Swindler
Serie	Introduction To The Primates
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	University of Washington Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1998-04-01
Seitenanzahl	336
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