New Edition
Primate Adaptation and Evolution,
Edition 3
By John Fleagle

Publication Date: 28 Mar 2013
Description

Primate Adaptation and Evolution, Third Edition, is a thorough revision of the text of choice for courses in primate evolution. The book retains its grounding in the extant primate groups as the best way to understand the fossil trail and the evolution of these modern forms. However, this coverage is now streamlined, making reference to the many new and excellent books on living primate ecology and adaptation – a field that has burgeoned since the first edition of Primate Adaptation and Evolution.

By drawing out the key features of the extant families and referring to more detailed texts, the author sets the scene and also creates space for a thorough updating of the exciting developments in primate palaeontology – and the reconstruction through early hominid species – of our own human origins. This updated version covers recent developments in primate paleontology and the latest taxonomy, and includes over 200 new illustrations and revised evolutionary trees.

This text is ideal for undergraduate and post-graduate students studying the evolution and functional ecology of primates and early fossil hominids.

Key Features

  • Long-awaited revision of the standard student text on primate evolution
  • Full coverage of newly discovered fossils and the latest taxonomy
  • Over 200 new illustrations and revised evolutionary trees
About the author
By John Fleagle, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA
Table of Contents

IFC

Preface

Chapter 1. Adaptation, Evolution, and Systematics

Adaptation

Evolution

Phylogeny

Taxonomy and Systematics

References

Chapter 2. The Primate Body

Primate Anatomy

Size

Cranial Anatomy

The Brain and Senses

The Trunk and Limbs

Soft Tissues

Growth and Development

References

Chapter 3. Primate Lives

Primate Habitats

Habitat Use

Activity Patterns

A Primate Day

Primate Diets

Locomotion

Social Life

Why Primates Live in Groups

Primate Life Histories

Primate Communities

References

Chapter 4. The Prosimians: Lemurs, Lorises, Galagos and Tarsiers

Strepsirrhines

Malagasy Strepsirrhines

Subfossil Malagasy strepsirrhines

Adaptive Radiation of Malagasy Primates

Galagos and Lorises

Adaptive Radiation of Galagos and Lorises

Phyletic Relationships of Strepsirrhines

Haplorhines

References

Chapter 5. New World Anthropoids

Primate Grades and Clades

Anatomy of Higher Primates

Platyrrhines

Pitheciids

Atelids

Cebids

Callitrichines

Adaptive Radiation of Platyrrhines

Phyletic Relationships of Platyrrhines

References

Chapter 6. Old World Monkeys

Catarrhine Anatomy

Cercopithecoids

Cercopithecines

Colobines

Adaptive Radiation of Old World Monkeys

Phyletic Relationships of Old World Monkeys

References

Chapter 7. Apes and Humans

Hominoids

Adaptive Radiation of Hominoids

Phyletic Relationships of Hominoids

References

Chapter 8. Primate Communities and Biogeography

Primate Biogeography

References

Chapter 9. Primate Adaptations

Effects of Size

Adaptations to Diet

Primate Sensory Adaptations

Locomotor Adaptations

Locomotor Compromises

Locomotion, Posture, and Ecology

Anatomical Correlates of Social Organization

Brains, Behavior, and Ecology

Adaptation and Phylogeny

References

Chapter 10. The Fossil Record

Geological Time

Molecular Dating of Phylogeny

Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift

Paleoclimate

Fossils and Fossilization

Paleoenvironments

Reconstructing Behavior

Paleobiogeography

References

Chapter 11. Primate Origins

Euarchontans – Primates and Other Mammals

Tree Shrews

Flying Lemurs

Plesiadapiforms

Adaptive Radiation of Plesiadapiforms

Plesiadapiforms and Primates

Primates Among the Archonta

The Adaptive Origin of Primates

References

Chapter 12. Fossil Prosimians

The First Modern Primates

Adapoids

Notharctids

Asiadapids

Caenopithecids

Adapids

Sivaladapids

Other Asian Adapoids

Azibiids, Djebelemurids, and Plesiopithecus: North African Stem Strepsirrhines?

Fossil Lorises and Galagos

Adapoids and Strepsirrhines?

Omomyoids

Omomyoids, Tarsiers, and Haplorhines

Adaptive Radiations and Biogeography of Fossil Prosimians

Origin and Early Evolution of Primates

References

Chapter 13. Early Anthropoids

The Oligocene

Early Anthropoids from Africa and Arabia

Phyletic Relationships

Eocene Anthropoids from Asia

Early Anthropoid Adaptations

Phyletic Relationships of Early Anthropoids

Prosimian Origins of Anthropoids

References

Chapter 14. Fossil Platyrrhines

The Platyrrhine Fossil Record

The Earliest Platyrrhines

The Patagonian Platyrrhines

A More Modern Community

Late Miocene Amazonian Monkeys

Pleistocene Platyrrhines

Caribbean Primates

Summary of Fossil Platyrrhines

Platyrrhine Origins

References

Chapter 15. Primitive Catarrhines and Fossil Apes

Miocene Epoch

Middle-Late Oligocene Primitive Catarrhines from Arabia and Africa

Early and Middle Miocene ‘Apes’ from Africa

Phyletic Relationships of Proconsuloids and other African Miocene Apes

Phylogenetic Relationships of Western Eurasian Apes

Phyletic Relationships of Asian Apes

The Evolution of Living Hominoids

Evolution of Gibbons

Evolution of the Orangutan

Evolution of African Apes

The Biogeography of Ape Evolution

References

Chapter 16. Fossil Old World Monkeys

Victoriapithecids: The Earliest Old World Monkeys

Fossil Cercopithecids

Fossil Cercopithecines

Fossil Colobines

Eurasian Colobines

Fossil Record of Cercopithecoids

References

Chapter 17. Fossil Hominins, the Bipedal Primates

Pliocene Epoch

Early Hominin Adaptations and Hominin Origins

Postcranial Adaptations

Phyletic Relationships of Early Hominins

Pleistocene Epoch

Human Phylogeny

Hominin Evolution in Perspective

References

Chapter 18. Patterns in Primate Evolution

Primate Adaptive Radiations

Adaptation and Phylogeny

Patterns in Primate Phylogeny

Primate Extinctions

Limiting Primate Extinctions

References

Glossary

Appendix 1. Classification of the Order Primates

Genera in bold contain extant members

Bibliography

Chapter 1: Further Reading

Chapter 2: Further Reading

Chapter 3: Further Reading

Chapter 4: Further Reading

Chapter 5: Further Reading

Chapter 6: Further Reading

Chapter 8: Further Reading

Chapter 9: Further Reading

Chapter 10: Further Reading

Chapter 11: Further Reading

Chapter 12: Further Reading

Chapter 13: Further Reading

Chapter 14: Further Reading

Chapter 15: Further Reading

Chapter 16: Further Reading

Chapter 17: Further Reading

Chapter 18: Further Reading

Index

IBC

Book details
ISBN: 9780123786326
Page Count: 456
Retail Price : £70.99
Fleagle, Primate Adaptation and Evolution 2e, (1999, $68.95 / £42.99, 9780122603419)Ravosa, M.J & Dagosto, M - Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution (2005 $ 169, 9780387303352)Rowe, N & Mittermeier, R.A.,The Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates (Paperback), (1999, $59.95, 9780964882515)
Audience
Undergraduate and Post-graduate students studying the evolution and functional ecology of primates and early fossil hominids.Primatologists, Evolutionary Biologists, Palaeontologists.Physical Anthropologists, Social Scientists and the Lay Public