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Primate Biogeography: Progress and Prospects (Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects) - Softcover

Book 11 of 51: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
 
9781441940087: Primate Biogeography: Progress and Prospects (Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1441940081 ISBN 13: 9781441940087
Publisher: Springer, 2010

Synopsis

This comprehensive source introduces the reader to Primate Biogeography as a discipline. Primate Biogeography is a subject rarely addressed as a discipline in its own right. This book highlights the many factors that may influence the distribution of primates, and reveals the wide range of approaches that are available to understanding the distribution of this order. The biogeography of primates in the past is a major component of our understanding of their evolutionary history and is an essential component of conservation biology. This book will appeal to primatologists, physical anthropologists, zoologists, and undergraduates in these areas.

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Biogeography, the study of the distribution of organisms over the surface of the earth, plays a central role in our understanding of virtually all aspects of the biology of primates and other animals, including systematics, mechanisms of speciation, population genetics and demography. The distribution of primates relative to aspects of climate and habitat, including altitude, forest type, and food availability, forms the basis for our understanding of ecological and behavioral adaptations. The biogeography of primates in the past is a major component of our understanding of their evolutionary history and is an essential component of conservation biology.

This volume, which brings together these papers on the biogeography of primates, past and present, provides an introduction to Primate Biogeography as a discipline, illustrates the many factors that may influence the distribution of primates, and demonstrates the wide range of methodological approaches that are available to understanding the distribution of this order.

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Publisher
Springer
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1441940081
ISBN 13 
9781441940087
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
548
Editor
Lehman Shawn M., Fleagle John G