Primate Adaptation and Evolution - John G. Fleagle

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Résumé :
This 3rd edition is a thorough revision of the text of choice for courses in primate evolution.

Biographie:
John Fleagle is a primatologist whose research combines field studies and functional morpho-logical analysis. He is interested in the adaptive radiation of primates during the last 50 million years. He has conducted paleobiological research in Egypt, Argentina, and Ethiopia and has studied living primates in Malaysia, Surinam, Brazil and Madagascar. Dr. Fleagle is a MacArthur Fellow.

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Fleagle has revised and rewritten each chapter, redone all the tables, added many new figures, and replaced almost all the references. One of the changes is that he now uses a suite of criteria to estimate body mass from fossil skeletons, rather than the single formula he formerly used.--Reference and Research Book News, August 2013 Reviews of the First Edition Fleagle's book...is a tour de force as well as a tour d'horizon of the primate order...Fleagle's book fills a long-standing need for a comprehensive and up-to-date introductory text in its field. --NATURE Just occasionally in academic life there comes together in one person research ability, industry, and the willingness to communicate. This is indeed the case for John Fleagle's textbook. An admirable book that deserves the success that it will undoubtedly achieve. --BIOLOGY AND SOCIETY Professional primatologists and students alike will be delighted with John Fleagle's Primate Adaptation and Evolution, which will brilliantly refresh any university reading list in the subject. For many university courses on primate biology, it will undoubtedly become a primary text. --THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT This is an excellent book on primate comparative anatomy, behavioral ecology, and paleontology. --AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST John Fleagle has done it! Primate Adaptation and Evolution is the readable and seeable, but still traditional, textbook that my students have been waiting for someone to write. --AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY This book will be welcomed with a sigh of relief in departments of anatomy and biological anthropology world-wide. Here at last is an up-to-date, comprehensive and reliable textbook for courses in primate and human evolution... It will, and should, stand as a major teaching resource for primate evolution for some years to come. It is an excellent text and a reflection of Fleagle's major contributions to our field. --PRIMATE EYE This volume is basically designed as an advanced undergraduate or graduate textbook but is so well illustrated and organized that it can also be used as a general source or reference for less specialized readers. No other single work can match the range of its topics, which matches the interests of its author, one of the leading students of primate paleontology, behavior, morphology, and evolution. --CHOICE