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Primate Evolution and Human Origins compiles, for the first time, the major ideas and publications that have shaped our current view of the evolutionary biology of the primates and the origin of the human line
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The reader collects 44 seminal scientific articles on primate and human evolution published during the 20 years or so before 1987. They cover primate origins, the evolution of prosimians, anthropoid origins and New World monkeys, the evolution of Old World monkeys and apes, Ramapithecus and human origins, early hominids, and diverse approaches in human evolution. The topics include prosimians and the second radiation, paleobiogeographical perspectives on the origin of the Platyrrhini, species diversity and diet in monkeys and apes during the Miocene, the single-species hypothesis of competitive exclusion among lower Pleistocene hominids, and a molecular approach to the question of human origins. There is no index. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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