Introduction to the primates

Resource Information

The work Introduction to the primates represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Introduction to the primates

Statement of responsibility

Daris R. Swindler ; illustrated by Linda E. Curtis

Creator

• Swindler, Daris Ray

Subject

• Anatomie
• Classificatie
• Diergedrag
• Fysiologie
• Primaten
• Primates
• Primates
• Primates
• Primatologie
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
• Primaten

Language

eng

Summary

A comprehensive guide to the evolutionary history of the world's prosimians, monkeys, and apes, and of humankind's interactions with them. This account of 65 million years of adaptation and evolution concludes with a chapter on the threat that homo sapiens now pose to the survival of the world's nonhuman primates. 42 photos. 72 drawings. A comprehensive yet compact guide to the long evolutionary history of the world's prosimians, monkeys, and apes, and the much shorter history of humankind's interactions with them, from our earliest recorded observations to the threats we now pose to their survival. Describes the major primate groups and their environments, compares the species anatomically, and considers primate behavior and its close connection with environment and evolutionary differences. Includes b & w photos and drawings. For students of primatology

Member of

• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

IDEBK

Dewey number

599.8

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

QL737.P9

LC item number

S82 1998eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

• 1999 A-087
• QL 737.P9

NLM item number

S978i 1998