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 |
| Title | Introduction to the Primates |
| Author | Daris R Swindler |
| Series | Introduction To The Primates |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Washington Press |
| Year published | 1998-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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