Primate Adaptation and Evolution

* Features up-to-date information about many aspects of primate biology and evolution
• Contains a completely new chapter on primate communities
• Presents totally revised chapters on primate origins, early anthropoids, and fossil platyrrhines
• Includes an updated glossary, illustrations, and
• Classification of Order Primates
• Succeeds as the best introductory text on primate evolution because it synthesizes and allows access to primary literature

John Fleagle is a primatologist whose research combines field studies and functional morpho-logical analysis. He is interested in the adaptive radiation of primates during the last 50 mil-lion years. He has conducted paleobiological research in Egypt, Argentina, and Ethiopia and has studied living primates in Malaysia, Surinam, Brazil and Madagascar. Fleagle is a MacArthur Fellow. He is the author of the textbook Primate Adaptation and Evolution, and the Editor of Evolutionary Anthropology.