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Living New World Monkeys (Platyrrhini), Volume 1 With an Introduction to Primates

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ISBN-10: 0226327884

ISBN-13: 9780226327884

Edition: 1978

Authors: Philip Hershkovitz

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In this long-awaited work, Philip Hershkovitz provides the most thorough and comprehensive treatise ever published on New World monkeys. The volume gives a detailed account of the origin, evolution, dispersal, and behavior of platyrrhines and a systematic arrangement of all known forms, living and extinct. During an eleven-year period, Hershkovitz examined more than 3,100 museum-preserved specimens and relevant primate fossils and observed hundreds of animals in captivity and thousands in the wild state. He presents his results in an elegant and encyclopedic text, lavishly illustrated with 520 figures and 7 color plates. Hershkovitz opens the study with a brief history and a definition,…    
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Book details

List price: $234.00
Copyright year: 1978
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/1/1977
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 1132
Size: 0.92" wide x 1.46" long x 0.33" tall
Weight: 7.040
Language: English

Preface
Material and Acknowledgments Corrigenda
History and Evolutionary Biology
Origin, Evolution, and Definition
Families and Genera of Living Primates and Extinct Platyrrhines: A Reference List
Living Haplorhini and Strepsirhini Compared
Some Descriptive, Diagnostic, Quasi-diagnostic, and Primitive Mammalian Characters of Living Primates
Locomotion
Evolutionary and Comparative Morphology of New World Monkeys, Infraorder Platyrrhini
Geography and Platyrrhine-Catarrhine Relationships
Size and Evolution
Pelage
Tactile Vibrissae
Tegumentary Colors
Metachromism: Principle of Evolutionary Change in Tegumentary Colors
External Ear
Tongue
External Genitalia and Accessory Structures
Monkey Rickets (Osteomalacia) and Vitamin D
External Characters of Living New and Old World Monkeys Compared
External Characters of Living Platyrrhine Families Compared
Skull
Introduction and Facial Region
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Vision
Olfaction and Taste
Cerebral Hemispheres in Platyrrhines
Comparative Cerebral Characters: Living New and Old World Monkeys Compared
New World Monkey Parasites
Systematics, Evolution, and Biology of the Families Callitrichidae and Callimiconidae
Family Callitrichidae Thomas: Marmosets and Tamarins
Family Callitrichidae
Diagnostic Characters
Family Callitrichidae
Classification and Keys
Family Callitrichidae
Biology
GenusCebuellaGray: Pygmy Marmoset
Cebuella pygmaeaSpix, Pygmy Marmoset
History and Characters
Cebuella pygmae
Biology
Genus Callithrix Erxleben, True Marmosets or Ouistitis
Callithrix jacchusLinnaeus, Tufted-ear Marmosets or Ouistitis
History, Characters, Subspecies
Callithrix jacchus
Biology of the Tufted-ear Marmoset or Ouistiti
Callithrix argentataGroup, Bare-ear and Tassel-ear Marmosets
Callithrix argentataLinnaeus, Bare-ear Marmosets
History, Characters and Subspecies
Callithrix argentata
Biology of the Bare-ear Marmosets
Callithrix humeraliferE. Geoffroy, Tassel-ear Marmosets: History, Characters, Subspecies, and Biology
GenusSaguinusHoffmannsegg, Tamarins
History, Characters, and Key to Species Groups
Saguinus
Hairy-face Tamarins: Characters, Taxonomy, and Key to Species Groups
Saguinus nigricollisGroup, White-mouth Tamarins
History, Characters, Evolution, and Key to Species
Saguinus nigricollisSpix, Back-mantle Tamarins
Saguinus fuscicollisSpix, Saddle-back Tamarins
Saguinus nigricollisGroup
Biology of White-mouth Tamarins
Saguinus mystaxGroup, Moustached Tamarins
Characters, Evolution, and Key to Species and Subspecies
Saguinus labiatusE. Geof