Product Overview
Primate Adaptation and Evolutionis the only recent text published in this rapidly progressing field. It provides you with an extensive, current survey of the order Primates, both living and fossil. By combining information on primate anatomy, ecology, and behavior with the primate fossil record, this book enables students to study primates from all epochs as a single, viable group. It surveys major primate radiations throughout 65 million years, and provides equal treatment of both living and extinct species.
Presents a summary of the primate fossils
Reviews primate evolution
Provides an introduction to the primate anatomy
Discusses the features that distinguish the living groups of primates
Summarizes recent work on primate ecology
