This book is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to primatology. It provides both a survey and synthesis of primate history, biology and behavior. As a survey, it offers a focused review of living and extinct primates in regional and community frameworks. As a synthesis, it applies the community perspective in a unique way to explore primates’ adaptive diversity in the context of how evolution works. The book encourages students to study primates as integrated members of regional communities, ecologically, historically and evolutionarily.
The chapters are organized to emphasize the...

This book is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to primatology. It provides both a survey and synthesis of primate history, biology and behavior. As a survey, it offers a focused review of living and extinct primates in regional and community frameworks. As a synthesis, it applies the community perspective in a unique way to explore primates’ adaptive diversity in the context of how evolution works. The book encourages students to study primates as integrated members of regional communities, ecologically, historically and evolutionarily.
The chapters are organized to emphasize the...