Species, Species Concepts and Primate Evolution

Book Overview

A world of categones devmd of spirit waits for life to return. Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift The stock-in-trade of communicating hypotheses about the historical path of evolution is a graphical representation called a phylogenetic tree. In most such graphics, pairs of branches diverge from other branches, successively marching across abstract time toward the present. To each branch is tied a tag with a name, a binominal symbol that functions as does...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306442973
• ISBN13: 9780306442971
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"