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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Where Primates Live and How They Move | |
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| How Primates Are Classified | |
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| The Primate Pattern | |
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| The Basics of Primate Evolution | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "Nature Red in Tooth and Claw" | |
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| The Primate Fossil Record | |
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| Paleocene Primates (65 to 55 mya) | |
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| Eocene Primates (55 to 36 mya) | |
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| The Arboreal Theory | |
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| Oligocene Primates (36 to 24 mya) | |
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| Miocene Primates (24 to 5 mya) | |
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| Plio-Pleistocene Primates (5 mya to 10,000 Years Ago) | |
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| "In the Field"--Alfred Rosenberger | |
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| Using Living Species to Study Evolution | |
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| Molecular Techniques | |
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| Other Methods | |
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| The Tree Shrew: Structural Ancestor of All Primates? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Methods and Theory for Studying Living Primates | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Field Methods | |
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| "In the Field"--Jane Phillips-Conroy | |
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| Reproductive Strategies: Basic Concepts | |
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| Primate Social Systems | |
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| Male Strategies | |
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| Female Strategies | |
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| Kin Selection and Altruism | |
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| Environmental Factors: Diets and Predators | |
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| Summary | |
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| Galagos, Lorises, and Tarsiers | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Unites Prosimians | |
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| The Prosimian Pattern | |
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| Galagos and Lorises | |
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| Galagonidae | |
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| Loridae | |
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| Tarsiidae | |
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| "In the Field"--Sharon Gursky | |
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| Summary | |
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| Lemurs | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Lemuridae | |
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| Megaladapidae | |
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| Cheirogaleidae | |
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| Indridae | |
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| Daubentoniidae | |
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| Summary | |
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| "In the Field"--Eleanor Sterling | |
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| Monkeys of the New World: The Callitrichines | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The New World Monkey Pattern | |
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| Cebidae | |
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| The Callitrichines: Marmosets, Tamarins, and Goeldi's Monkeys | |
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| "In the Field"--Paul Garber | |
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| Summary | |
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| Other Neotropical Monkeys: Cebidae and Atelidae | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Cebidae | |
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| The Cebines: Saimiri and Cebus | |
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| "In the Field"--Susan Boinski | |
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| Atelidae | |
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| The Seed Predators: Sakis, Bearded Sakis, and Uakaris | |
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| The Atelines | |
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| Summary | |
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| Old World Monkeys: The Leaf-Eating Colobines | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Old World Monkey Pattern | |
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| The Colobines | |
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| The African Colobines | |
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| "In the Field"--John Oates | |
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| The Asian Colobines | |
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| Summary | |
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| Old World Cheek-Pouched Monkeys: The Shift to Terrestriality | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Guenons | |
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| Arboreal Guenons | |
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| Semiterrestrial Guenons | |
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| "In the Field"--Marina Cords | |
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| Other Primates That Live in One-Male Groups | |
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| A Species that Spends Time on the Ground | |
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| Summary | |
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| Macaques and Savanna Baboons: Sexual Politics and Human Evolution | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Macaques | |
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| "In the Field"--Donald Sade | |
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| Savanna Baboons | |
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| The Classic Baboon Model | |
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| Baboons' Lib | |
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| Summary | |
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| Gibbons: The Lesser Apes | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Ape Pattern | |
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| The Hylobatid Pattern | |
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| Gibbon Social Life | |
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| Daily Activities | |
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| "In the Field"--Thad Bartlett | |
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| A Further Word About Siamangs | |
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| Hylobatid Conservation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Orangutans: The Shy Ape | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Great Ape Pattern | |
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| The Orangutan: "Person of the Forest" | |
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| Social Behavior | |
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| Mothering | |
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| Orangutan Cognition | |
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| "In the Field"--Daniel Shillito | |
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| Through a Glass Darkly | |
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| Summary | |
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| Gorillas: The Largest Primates of All | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Three Kinds of Gorillas | |
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| Locomotion--On the Ground and in the Trees | |
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| "In the Field"--Melissa Remis | |
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| Diet and Other Day-to-Day Activities | |
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| Reproduction | |
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| Gorilla Cognition | |
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| The Bigger They Come, the Harder They Fall | |
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| Summary | |
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| Our Cousins: The Chimpanzees | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Two Species, Two Looks | |
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| Of Habitats and Habits | |
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| Getting Fed: The Role of Tools and Hunting | |
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| Chimpanzee the Hunter | |
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| "In the Field"--Ellen Ingmanson | |
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| Social Lives of Bonobos and Other Chimpanzees Like Night and Day | |
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| Culture and Cognition in Pan | |
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| Will They Survive? | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Earliest Hominids | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Australopithecines | |
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| Modeling the Common Ancestor | |
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| Did the Common Ancestor Hunt? | |
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| The Evolution of Cognition in Early Hominids | |
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| "In the Field"--Peter Rodman | |
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| Summary | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |