Primate anatomy : an introduction / Friderun Ankel-Simons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ankel-Simons, Friderun.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Primates--Anatomy.

Primates.

Biology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (747 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

San Diego, CA : Elsevier Academic Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is unlike ay other work on primates: it systematically reviews the biology of all living primates, including humans. It describes their bio-geographical information and provides crucial data pertaining to their body size, fur coloration external distinguishing features, habitat and basic life strategies. Now in its third edition, Primate Anatomy discusses species that are new to science since the last edition with details concerning anatomical features among primates that were re-discovered. New research in molecular primatology is also included due to recent relevant

Contents:

Front cover; Primate Anatomy An Introduction; Copyright page; Table of contents; Foreword to the Second Edition; Preface; Preface to the First Edition; Chapter 1: Taxonomic List of Extant Primates; NEW DEVELOPMENTS; LIST OF EXTANT PRIMATES; Chapter 2: Taxonomy; HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFICATION; POPULATION BIOLOGY AND CLASSIFICATION; MISUNDERSTANDINGS IN PRIMATE CLASSIFICATION; THE TARSIER CONUNDRUM; Chapter 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 PRIMATESChapter 4: Survey of Living Primates; SURVEY OF LIVING SCANDENTIA AND PROSIMII; SURVEY OF LIVING ANTHROPOIDEA; Chapter 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; Chapter 6: Brain; BRAIN MORPHOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; NEW INSIGHTS INTO BRAIN FUNCTION; Chapter 7: Teeth; TOOTH MORPHOLOGY AND DIET-CAN THEY BE RELIABLY CORRELATED?; TOOTH STRUCTURE; DENTAL FORMULAE; DENTAL TYPOLOGY

FUNCTIONAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATIONCHEWING MECHANICS; DENTAL FORMULAE AND MORPHOLOGY; WHAT IS NEW IN PRIMATE TOOTH RESEARCH?; Chapter 8: Postcranial Skeleton; SPINE AND THORAX; SHOULDER GIRDLE; PELVIC GIRDLE; HANDS AND FEET; FIFTH EXTREMITY; MUSCLES; LOCOMOTION; NEW TECHNOLOGIES APPLIED TO STUDY PRIMATE LOCOMOTION; Chapter 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

Chapter 10: Placentation and Early Primate DevelopmentLEMURIDAE AND LORISIDAE; TARSIIDAE; CEBOIDEA AND CERCOPITHECOIDEA; CALLITRICHIDAE; PONGIDAE AND HOMINIDAE; Chapter 11: Reproductive Organs, Reproduction, and Growth; Chapter 12: Chromosomes and Blood Groups; CHROMOSOMES; BLOOD GROUPS; Chapter 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; Chapter 14: Primate Genomics; THE HISTORY OF GENETICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS

THE TARSIER CONUNDRUM STILL NOT SOLVEDGENETIC 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 REFLECTION; Chapter 15: Conclusions with a Glance at the Future; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-75157-6

9786610751570

0-08-046911-6

OCLC:

476037290