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Synopsis
This book examines the evidence of primate and human evolution in the light of new evolutionary models and advances in taxonomic theory. Dr. Groves discusses the "Nomogenesis" of Lev Berg and criticizes the cladistic school of taxonomy, adapting it in the light of theories of speciation. The result is a theory in which internal processes play a major role in human evolution and taxonomy becomes of major importance in evolutionary interpretation. The book will interest students and teachers of human biology and evolution, physical anthropologists, zoologists, paleontologists, and primatologists.
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Review
'he has produce a succinct, evolutionary-taxonomic outline which is a valuable contribution in its own right; it also acts as a basis for his detailed study of human evolution which follows ... I believe Dr Groves has produced a most useful, succinct distillation of recent taxonomic and evolutionary concepts and these, plus his clear summaries of the fossil hominid material, should be found most valuable by the readership which he has targeted ... Dr Groves' book should find a place on the book shelves of most serious primatologists and palaeoanthropologists. Its factual material provides a useful reference and summary, its controversial aspects a stimulus to debate and re-analysis.' Len Freedman, ASHB News, Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1992 'This is without question an important book for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and professionals in the field.' C. Dean, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (1992), 105 `This volume will surely be an essential source of facts and ideas for all students of evolution and of living and fossil primates for a very long time.' Primate Eye `...this refreshing and original volume should not be ignored. John Napier, one of the two people to whom it is dedicated, would have enjoyed reading it.' Nature
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- PublisherClarendon Press
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0198577583
- ISBN 13 9780198577584
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages396
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