Adaptive Radiations of Neotropical Primates: Proceedings of a Conference on Neotropical Primates - Setting the Future Research Agenda - Held at Washington D.C., February 26-27, 1995 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0306453991 ISBN 13: 9780306453991

Publisher: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, 1997

Synopsis

Problems of Platyrhine Taxonomy and Distribution. Molecules, Morphology and Platyrrhine Systematics; H. Schneider, A.L. Rosenberger. Primates of the Atlantic Forest: Origin, Distributions, Endemism and Communities; A. Rylands, et al. Evolutionary Perspectives on the Marmosets and Tamarins (Saguinus, Callithrix, Cebuella, Leontopithecus, Callimico). P.A Garber, A.L. Rosenberger. The Other Side of Callitrichid Gummivory: Digestibility and Nutritional Value; M.L. Power. Locomotion of Golden Lion Tamarins (Leontopithecus Rosalia): The Effects of Foraging Adaptations and Substrate Characteristics on Locomotor Behavior; B. Stafford, et al. Update on Cebine Evolution (Cebus, Saimiri). L. Fedigan, et al. Species Definition and Differentiation as Seen in the Postcranial Skeleton of Cebus; S. Ford, D.M. Hobbs. New Perspectives on the Pithecines (Pithecia, Cacajao, Chiropotes, Callicebus, Aotus). A.L. Rosenberger, M.A. Norconk. The Evolution of Positional Behavior in the Saki-Uakaris (Pithecia, Chiropotes, and Cacajao); S.E. Walker. Rethinking Ateline Evolution (Alouatta, Ateles, Brachyteles, Lagothrix). W.C. Hartwig, et al. Dental Microwear and Diet in a Wild Population of Mantled Howling Monkeys (Alouatta palliata); M. Teaford, K. Glander. 21 Additional Articles. Index.

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Review

`Quite good...the papers present new data on important topics...a worthwhile contribution to the state of the art on New World Monkeys.'
The Quarterly Review of Biology (June 1998)

About the Author

Marilyn A. Norconk is Professor of Anthropology at Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA. Her research focuses on behavioral ecology of South American monkeys, particularly feeding ecology and social behaviour of white-faced sakis and bearded sakis in Venezuela and Suriname.

Marilyn A. Norconk is Professor of Anthropology at Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA. Her research focuses on behavioral ecology of South American monkeys, particularly feeding ecology and social behaviour of white-faced sakis and bearded sakis in Venezuela and Suriname.

Garber is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306453991
• ISBN 13: 9780306453991
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 490
• Editor: Norconk Marilyn A., Etc.