Primate Adaptation and Evolution

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 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.

1. Adaptation, Evolution, and Systematics2. The Primate Body3. Primate Lives4. The Prosimians - Lemurs, Lorises, Galagos, and Tarsiers5. New World Anthropoids6. Old World Monkeys7. Apes and Humans8. Primate Communities and Biogeography9. Primate Adaptation10. The Fossil Record11. Primate Origins12. Fossil Prosimians13. Early Anthropoids14. Fossil Platyrrhines15. Primate Catarrhines and Fossil Apes16. Fossil Old World Monkeys17. Fossil Hominins - Bipedal Primates18. Patterns in Primate Evolution