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Pages: 223
Authors: Clive Finlayson
Categories: Science
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Offers an ecological approach to human evolution, arguing that environmental change shaped evolution by creating taller and slimmer bipedal bodies more adept to
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Pages: 256
Authors: Clive Finlayson
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-27 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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Taking an ecological approach to our evolution, Clive Finlayson considers the origins of modern humans within the context of a drying climate and changing lands
Introduction to the Primates
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Pages: 301
Authors: Daris R. Swindler
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-20 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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Introduction to the Primates is a comprehensive but compact guide to the long evolutionary history of the world’s prosimians, monkeys, and apes, and to the mu
The Monkey's Voyage
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Pages: 369
Authors: Alan de Queiroz
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Throughout the world, closely related species are found on landmasses separated by wide stretches of ocean. What explains these far-flung distributions? Why are
Primate Sexuality
Language: en
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Authors: Alan F. Dixson
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-26 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Primate Sexuality provides a synthesis of current research on the evolution and physiological control of sexual behaviour in the primates - prosimians, monkeys,