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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 2310 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Intended to provide a comprehensive description of the enterprise of education both within the United States and throughout the world. Articles offer a view of the institutions, people, processes, and products found in educational practice. ... Read more

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This thoroughly documented synthesis on primate evolution, aims to combine the major features of recent studies of primate evolution with classical anatomical information and hence provide an overall picture, with the emphasis on how evidence is sifted and assessed. In recent years there has been increasing emphasis on functional aspects, using laboratory techniques and broad field studies to relate behaviour to ecology. But there has also been much analysis of chromosomal evidence and biochemical features, producing a new framework for considering primate evolution and giving a new impetus to phylogenetic reconstruction. ... Read more

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Nice effort to use primate models to explore human behavior
A specialized book--but well done at that. The editor of this collection of essays notes the purpose of the volume (Page viii): "Can field studies of primate behavior tell us anything about early human behaviors, or even about the origin of such behaviors?"

The book is divided into four sections. The first explores "behavioral innovations" among primates. The second section examines primate-derived models of human behavior. The third part considers paleoecological models. The final section has one essay, co-authored by John Tooby and Irven DeVore, "The reconstruction of hominid behavioral evolution through strategic modeling."

Thought provoking. The book holds up fairly well after over two decades from its publication. . . .
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This digital document is an article from UXL Encyclopedia of Science, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 924 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.This collection of entries covers major areas of science including: biology, genetics, microbiology, astronomy, chemistry, physics, engineering, technology, geology, weather, archaeology, psychology, mathematics, and medicine, and provides readers with a wide range of up-to-date, relevant, and accurate information. ... Read more

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This volume is the second in the planned coverage of the neurochemical circuitry of the primate central nervous system. While this volume contains only two chapters, their topics and the extraordinarily comprehensive coverage with which the authors have dealt with their topics, will nevertheless contribute equal amounts of knowledge, wisdom, and opportunities for future research extensions as have every volume in this unique series. As such, these chapters extend the goals of this primate series to develop a broad coverage of human and non-human primate chemical neuroanatomic details in a volume which makes clear the known and desirable appreciation for differences between and among subsets of primate brains.

The first chapter covers the primate thalamus with equal emphases on new world, old world, pro-simian and human anatomic details and their differences. The second undertakes a comparably comprehensive examination of one of the most intensively studied regions of the primate brain, namely the primate visual cortex. While much has been studied, both chapters also reveal how much remains for future efforts in these enormously important regions which are the archetypes of primate sub-cortical and cortical function.
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Publisher: E. LloydPublication date: 1896Subjects: PrimatesNature / GeneralScience / Life Sciences / Zoology / GeneralScience / Life Sciences / Zoology / PrimatologyNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Population, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 2078 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Containing material from hundreds of highly distinguished contributors representing the world's top universities and institutions, providing a truly global perspective. Among the many topics covered are African, Islamic, Jewish, Russian, Chinese, and Buddhist philosophies; bioethics and biomedical ethics; art and aesthetics; epistemology; metaphysics; peace and war; social and political philosophy; the Holocaust; feminist thought; and much more. Also featuresbiographical entries on major figures in philosophical thought throughout history. ... Read more

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The hand commonly is considered to have exerted great influence on the evolution of typically human features, like upright posture, stereoscopic vision, "manipulative" handling of parts of the environment. The hands of the other primates are not less closely related to the necessities of life than in humans. But beyond this general statement, only few satisfying and precise analyses of their functions exist. Most considerations begin and end up with Napier's discrimination and definition of power grip and precision grip - which has turned out to be very useful in surgery - and the restating of man's distinctiveness. The characteristic features of the human hand are to a large extent shared by the hands of other primates, and therefore it seems logical to approach the human hand by looking into the details of hand function and hand morphology in non-human primates. This book presents a well-integrated series of articles which deepen our knowledge regarding the problems mentioned above. ... Read more

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Providing a synthesis of our present knowledge of a colourful group of monkeys - the African Guenons, this book examines some of the current views on mammalian community structure and speciation, as well as on the phylogeny of African primates. ... Read more

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This book represents the most comprehensive publication of its type on nonhuman primates. It also provides basic information on the biology and management of primates for anyone responsible for the care and use of these animals. A related book on primate diseases will be published in 1996.

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* Stresses the following major topics:
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This volume presents a comprehensive review of the current research in the field of primate thinking, learning and behavioural development. Recent theories of the ways in which primates perceive their world are integrated with the ways that they behave and communicate about each other and their environment. Many different species in both the wild and in captivity are discussed with coverage from the social development of neonates to the behaviour of adults. The common theme to the contributions is an attempt to understand how primates perceive, learn about and manipulate their social and physical environment. ... Read more