This valuable collection of essays presents and evaluates techniques of body-mass estimation and reviews current and potential applications of body-size estimates in paleobiology. Papers discuss explicitly the errors and biases of various regression techniques and predictor variables, and the identification of functionally similar groups of species for improving the accuracy of estimates. At the same time other chapters review and discuss the physiological, ecological, and behavioral correlates of body size in extant mammals; the significance of body-mass distributions in mammalian faunas; and the ecology and evolution of body size in particular paleofaunas. Coverage is particularly detailed for carnivores, primates, and ungulates, but information is also presented on marsupials, rodents, and proboscideans.
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"...reveals how much wider is the scope of palaeobiology than just humans and human origins, or even primates. It is a book with an honest approach, always vigilant that it is treading along a slippery path. Practioners of palaeobiology will find it useful for having assembled a recondite set of facts and for its deliberate cautiousness." Nature
"...valuable because it identifies some of the promise and the problems of a new research program in paleobiology..." Quarterly Review of Biology
"...provides a very useful and significant reference about a variety of mammalian groups and a variety of methodological approaches to the estimation of body size in these taxa." Matthew J. Ravosa, International Journal of Primatology
"...valuable because it identifies some of the promise and the problems of a new research program in paleobiology..." Quarterly Review of Biology
"...provides a very useful and significant reference about a variety of mammalian groups and a variety of methodological approaches to the estimation of body size in these taxa." Matthew J. Ravosa, International Journal of Primatology
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This valuable collection of essays presents and evaluates techniques of body-mass estimation and reviews current and potential applications of body-size estimates in paleobiology. Coverage is particularly detailed for carnivores, primates and ungulates, but information is also presented on marsupials, rodents and proboscideans.
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New York, Van Valkenburgh, North America, Cambridge University Press, John Damuth, Academic Press, Plenum Press, University of Chicago Press, Late Miocene, Mammalian Paleobiology, Human Evol, Van Valen, Love Bone Bed, Smithsonian Institution Press, Oligocene Orellan, Santa Barbara, East African Mammals, Mammals of the World, American Museum of Natural History, Columbia University Press, Eocene Bridgerian, Eocene Wasatchian, Harvard University Press, John Wiley, Miocene Arikareean New!
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New York, Van Valkenburgh, North America, Cambridge University Press, John Damuth, Academic Press, Plenum Press, University of Chicago Press, Late Miocene, Mammalian Paleobiology, Human Evol, Van Valen, Love Bone Bed, Smithsonian Institution Press, Oligocene Orellan, Santa Barbara, East African Mammals, Mammals of the World, American Museum of Natural History, Columbia University Press, Eocene Bridgerian, Eocene Wasatchian, Harvard University Press, John Wiley, Miocene Arikareean New!
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- Size and Scaling in Primate Biology (Advances in Primatology) by William J. Jungers on 10 pages
- Mammals of the World - Volumes 1 and 2 by Ernest Pillsbury Walker on 7 pages
- The Ecological Implications of Body Size (Cambridge Studies in Ecology) by Robert Henry Peters on 6 pages
- Size, Function and Life History by William A. Calder III on 6 pages
- The Kingdon Pocket Guide to African Mammals (Princeton Pocket Guides) by Jonathan Kingdon on 5 pages
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- Species Coexistence: Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives by M. Tokeshi in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Primate and Human Evolution (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology) by Susan Cachel in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe: Volume 2: Phylogeny of the Neogene Hominoid Primates of Eurasia by Louis de Bonis on page 46, and page 313
- Fossil Horses: Systematics, Paleobiology, and Evolution of the Family Equidae by Bruce J. MacFadden in Back Matter
- Ecological Morphology: Integrative Organismal Biology by Peter C. Wainwright on page 161
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