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Tarsiers: Past, Present and Future by Patricia C. Wright, Elwyn Laverne Simons, Sharon Gursky (Hardcover, 2003)

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Tarsiiformes, or tarsiers for short, are a group of living species of special interest to primatologists because their combination of derived and ancient characteristics make them pivotal to understanding the roots of primate evolution. These small-bodied, nocturnal, solitary creatures resemble lower primates in their behavior but genetically, DNA evidence aligns them more closely with higher primates, such as monkeys, apes, and humans. These astounding creatures exhibit an ability found in no other living mammal - they can turn their heads 180 degrees in either direction to see both prey and predators. The world's only exclusively carnivorous primate, they eat live food (primarily insects, but the occasional vertebrate, such as lizards, snakes, or frogs will also do). This unique combination of behavior and anatomy makes the tarsier an especially interesting and controversial animal for study among primate behaviorists, evolutionists, and taxonomists, who view the tarsiers as living fossils that link past and present, lower and higher primates in the long chain of evolutionary history. This new volume presents alternative and contrasting perspectives on the most debated question

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13
9780813532363
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94707279

Product Key Features

Author
Patricia C. Wright, Elwyn Laverne Simons, Sharon Gursky
Publication Name
Tarsiers: Past, Present and Future
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Zoology, Anthropology, Biology
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
328 Pages

Dimensions

Item Weight
720g

Additional Product Features

Series Title
Rutgers Series on Human Evolution
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Sharon Gursky, Patricia C. Wright, Elwyn Laverne Simons

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