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Primate anatomy : an introduction / Friderun Ankel-Simons.
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View onlinePenn Museum Library QL737.P9 A594 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ankel-Simons, Friderun.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Primates--Anatomy.
- Primates.
- Primates--anatomy & histology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Primates--anatomy & histology.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 724 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- 1. Taxonomic list of extant primates
- New developments
- List of extant primates
- 2. Taxonomy
- Hierarchical classification
- Population biology and classification
- Misunderstandings in primate classification
- The tarsier conundrum
- 3. A history and objectives of primatology
- The state of affairs
- History
- Primatology as a branch of biology
- The future of primatology
- Retrospection and prediction
- Definition of order Primates
- 4. Survey of living primates
- Survey of living Scandentia and Prosimii
- Survey of living Anthropoidea
- 5. Skull
- Skull development and the two types of bone
- Orbital region
- Nasal region
- Skull base, braincase, and foramen magnum position
- Ear region
- The sinuses
- Comparative primate skull morphology
- 6. Brain
- Brain morphology
- Gene expression
- New insights into brain function
- 7. Teeth
- Tooth morphology and diet, can they be reliably correlated?
- Tooth structure
- Dental formulae
- Dental typology
- Functional and morphological variation
- Chewing mechanics
- Dental formulae and morphology
- What is new in primate tooth research?
- 8. Postcranial skeleton
- Spine and thorax
- Shoulder girdle
- Pelvic girdle
- Hands and feet
- Fifth extremity
- Muscles
- Locomotion
- New technologies applied to study primate locomotion
- 9. Sense organs and viscera
- Nose and olfaction
- Oral cavity, tongue, and taste
- Auditory region, hearing, and vocalization
- Eyes and eyesight
- Primate diarhythms and biochronology
- Nutrition and the intestinal tract
- Touch
- 10. Placentation and early primate development
- Lemuridae and Lorisidae
- Tarsiidae
- Ceboidea and Cercopithecoidea
- Callitrichidae
- Pongidae and Hominidae
- 11. Reproductive organs, reproduction, and growth
- 12. Chromosomes and blood groups
- Chromosomes
- Blood groups
- 13. Molecular primatology
- The genetic material of cells
- Indirect methods to study molecular primatology
- Direct study of genetic material
- Problems of phylogenetic analysis using molecular data
- 14. Primate genomics
- The history of genetics
- Molecular phylogenetics
- The tarsier conundrum still not solved
- Genetic expression of human learning
- BAC, YAC, and PAC libraries
- Genes controlling human behavior
- View into the future of genomics
- Transposable elements and numts
- Outlook and reflections
- 15. Conclusions and a glance at the future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 619-690) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0123725763
- 9780123725769
- OCLC:
- 71790288
- Online:
- Publisher description
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