Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution

by Matthew J. Ravosa

Book Overview

This book provides a novel focus on adaptive explanations for cranial and postcranial features and functional complexes, socioecological systems, life history patterns, etc. in early primates. It further offers a detailed rendering of the phylogenetic affinities of such basal taxa to later primate clades as well as to other early/recent mammalian orders. In addition to the strictly paleontological or systemic questions regarding Primate Origins,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1489978933
• ISBN13: 9781489978936
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 829 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"