Major topics in primate and human evolution
Wood, B, Martin, L. and Andrews, P. (editors)
Sold by Natural History Books, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since August 15, 2005
Sold by Natural History Books, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since August 15, 2005
Pp. (10), 1-364; numerous text-figures (line-drawings, photos, cladograms and phylogenies). Publisher's original pictorial white cloth, lettered in black and gray, lg 8vo. This volume is based on two symposia held in Great Britain in the mid-1980s. This work includes 18 papers: R.D. Martin: Primates: A Definition; P.D. Gingerich: Plesiadapis and the Delineation of the Order Primates; L.C. Aiello: The Relationships of the Tarssiiformes: A Review of the Case for the Haplorhini; A.L. Rosenberger: Platyrrhines, Catarrhines and the Anthropoid Transition; P.M. Butler: Problems of Dental Evolution in the Higher Primates; P. Andrews: Molecular Evidence for Catarrhine Evolution; J.G. Fleagle: The Fossil Record of Early Catarrhine Evolution; M.J. Bishop and A.E. Friday: Molecular Sequences and Hominoid Phylogeny; M. Ruvolo and D. Pilbeam: Hominoid Evolution: Molecular and Palaeontological Patterns; L. Martin: Relationships Among Extant and Extinct Great Apes and Humans; M.H. Day: Bipedalism: Pressures, Origins and Modes; W.L. Jungers and F.E. Grine; Dental Trends in the Australopithecines: The Allometry of Mandibular Molar Dimensions; B.A. Wood and A.T. Chamberlain: Australopithecus: Grade or Clade?; M.C. Dean: Homo and Paranthropus: Similarities in the Cranial Base and Developing Dentition; C.B. Stringer: The Credibility of Homo habilis; A. Bilsborough and B.A. Wood: The Origin and Fate of Homo erectus; J.S. Jones: The Origin of Homo sapiens: The Genetic Evidence; D.R. Pilbeam: The Origin of Homo sapiens: The Fossil Evidence. Inscribed on the front endpaper by one of the co-authors. No other ownership marks. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.
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