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" Primate anatomy : "
Friderun Ankel-Simons
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BL
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622207
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Ankel-Simons, Friderun
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Primate anatomy : : an introduction /\ Friderun Ankel-Simons
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3rd ed
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| Publication Statement
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Amsterdam ;Boston :: Elsevier Academic Press,, c2007
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xxi, 724 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm
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0123725763
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: 9780123725769
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 619-690) and index
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| Contents
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1. Taxonomic list of extant primates -- New developments -- List of extant primates -- 2. Taxonomy -- Hierarchical classification -- Population biology and classification -- Misunderstandings in primate classification -- The tarsier conundrum -- 3. A history and objectives of primatology -- The state of affairs -- History -- Primatology as a branch of biology -- The future of primatology -- Retrospection and prediction -- Definition of order primates -- 4. Survey of living primates -- Survey of living scandentia and prosimii -- Survey of Living anthropoidea -- 5. Skill -- Skull development and the two types of bone -- Orbital region -- Nasal region -- Skull base, braincase, and foramen magnum position -- Ear region -- The sinuses -- Comparative primate skull morphology -- 6. Brain -- Brain morphology -- Gene expression -- New insights into brain function -- 7. Teeth -- Tooth morphology and diet, can they be reliably correlated? -- Tooth structure -- Dental formulae -- Dental typology -- Functional and morphological variation -- Chewing mechanics -- Dental formulae and morphology -- What is new in primate tooth research? -- 8. Postcranial skeleton -- Spine and thorax -- Shoulder girdle -- Pelvic girdle -- Hands and feet -- Fifth extremity -- Muscles -- Locomotion -- New technologies applied to study primate locomotion -- 9. Sense organs and viscera -- Nose and olfaction -- Oral cavity, tongue, and taste -- Auditory region, hearing, and vocalization -- Eyes and eyesight -- Primate diarhythms and biochronology -- Nutrition and the intestinal tract -- Touch -- 10. Placentation and early primate development -- Lemuridae and lorisidae -- Tarsiidae -- Ceboidea and cercopithecoidea -- Callitrichidae -- Pongidae and hominidae -- 11. Reproductive organs, reproduction, and growth -- Text -- 12. Chromosomes and blood groups -- Chromosomes -- Blood groups -- 13. Molecular primatology -- The genetic material of cells -- Indirect methods to study molecular primatology -- Direct study of genetic material -- Problems of phylogenetic analysis using molecular data -- 14. Primate genomics -- The history of genetics -- Molecular phylogenetics -- The tarsier conundrum still not solved -- Genetic expression of human learning -- BAC, YAC, and PAC libraries -- Genes controlling human behavior -- View into the future of genomics -- Transposable elements and numts -- Outlook and reflections -- 15. Conclusions and a glance at the future -- Text
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Primates-- Anatomy
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Primates-- anatomy histology
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571.3/198
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QL737.P9A594 2007
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2007 C-455
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QL 737.P9A611 2007
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