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Praise for the First Edition
"Fleagle's book...is a tour de force as well as a tour d'horizon of the primate order...[it] fills a long-standing need for a comprehensive and up-to-date introductory text in this field".
Nature
"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 -- Review
"Fleagle's book...is a tour de force as well as a tour d'horizon of the primate order...[it] fills a long-standing need for a comprehensive and up-to-date introductory text in this field".
Nature
"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 -- Review
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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
"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
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Adaptation is a concept central to our understanding of evolution, but the term has proved very difficult to define in a simple phrase. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
poid origins, forest height preferences, simple molar teeth, living indriids, primate higher taxa, fossil platyrrhines, new primate fauna, main canopy levels, suspensory abilities, extant strepsirhines, postorbital closure, fossil prosimians, lemur social systems, living strepsirhines, fossil gibbons, tarsier relationships, extant platyrrhines, living catarrhines, early anthropoids, living platyrrhines, other platyrrhines, platyrrhine origins, suspensory behavior, fused mandibular symphysis, shearing crests Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old World, New York, Plenum Press, North America, Academic Press, South America, Cambridge University Press, Human Evol, University of Chicago Press, Human Fool, Oxford University Press, Columbia University Press, Estimated Species Mass, Princeton University Press, Harvard University Press, Smithsonian Institution Press, South Africa, Human Ancestry, University of Tokyo Press, Eocene Adapidae, The Hard Evidence, New Haven, Rio de Janeiro, Intermembral Common Name Species Index, Ivory Coast New!
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Adaptation is a concept central to our understanding of evolution, but the term has proved very difficult to define in a simple phrase. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
poid origins, forest height preferences, simple molar teeth, living indriids, primate higher taxa, fossil platyrrhines, new primate fauna, main canopy levels, suspensory abilities, extant strepsirhines, postorbital closure, fossil prosimians, lemur social systems, living strepsirhines, fossil gibbons, tarsier relationships, extant platyrrhines, living catarrhines, early anthropoids, living platyrrhines, other platyrrhines, platyrrhine origins, suspensory behavior, fused mandibular symphysis, shearing crests Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old World, New York, Plenum Press, North America, Academic Press, South America, Cambridge University Press, Human Evol, University of Chicago Press, Human Fool, Oxford University Press, Columbia University Press, Estimated Species Mass, Princeton University Press, Harvard University Press, Smithsonian Institution Press, South Africa, Human Ancestry, University of Tokyo Press, Eocene Adapidae, The Hard Evidence, New Haven, Rio de Janeiro, Intermembral Common Name Species Index, Ivory Coast New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- Primate Ecology and Conservation: Volume 2 (Selected Proceedings of the Tenth Congress of the International Primatological Society) by J. G. Else on page 177, and page 310
- Great Ape Societies by William C. McGrew on page 262, and page 265
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- Shaping Primate Evolution: Form, Function, and Behavior (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology) by Fred Anapol on 4 pages
- Theropithecus: The Rise and Fall of a Primate Genus by Nina G. Jablonski on page 156, and page 420
- Tropical Rain Forests: An Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison by Richard B. Primack on page 97, and Back Matter
- Physical Anthropology and Archaeology by Conrad Phillip Kottak on page 161, and Back Matter
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