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By Susan Cachel

Reconstructing the paleobiology of fossil non-human primates, this publication is meant as an exposition of non-human primate evolution that comes with information regarding evolutionary concept and methods, paleobiology, paleoenvironment, how fossils are shaped, how fossils illustrate evolutionary approaches, the reconstruction of existence from fossils, the formation of the primate fossil checklist, useful anatomy, and the genetic bases of anatomy. all through, the emphasis of the e-book is at the biology of fossil primates, now not their taxonomic type or systematics, or formal species descriptions. the writer attracts special photos of the paleoenvironment of fossil primates, together with modern animals and crops, and historical primate groups, emphasizing our skill to reconstruct lifeways from fragmentary bones and the teeth, utilizing sensible anatomy, strong isotopes from tooth and collagen, and excessive solution CT-scans of the skull. Fossil Primates should be crucial analyzing for complex undergraduates and graduate scholars in evolutionary anthropology, primatology and vertebrate paleobiology.

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