Search results for “[Subject: animals-primates]”

• Author(s): Sindhu Radhakrishna • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverMost successful among the non-human primates in terms of geographical distribution and adaptability to ecologic...

• Author(s): Hideki Endo • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Anatomy & PhysiologyThis book presents selected works of contemporary evolutionary morphologists and includes such topics as broad scale rec...

• Author(s): W. Patrick Luckett • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - GeneralTree shrews are small-bodied, scansorial, squirrel-like mammals that occupy a wide range of arboreal, semi-arboreal, and...

• Author(s): Sharon Gursky-Doyen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverEdited by two internationally renowned primatologists, this new text synthesizes current research on the primat...

• Author(s): Nanda B. Grow • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralFrom the Back CoverPrimates are remarkably adaptable animals that have gone through multiple radiations a...

• Author(s): Jeannette P. Ward • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: NeuroscienceThis book arrays recent research on the neural and behavioral lateralization of the brain relying heavily on animal modes. The authors employ ...

• Author(s): Michael A. Huffman • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiochemistryThis book introduces to the reader unfamiliar with primatology in Japan three research projects representative of the unique ...

• Author(s): Wolf Krebs • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - PrimatologyContents Introduction .......................................... . 1 The Primate Eye ...................................... ...

• Author(s): Julia E. Fa • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralThe Barbary macaque (all too often mistakenly called an ape) was first brought to the attention of the Cons...

• Author(s): Sharon Gursky-Doyen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralFrom the Back CoverSince the 1960s, primatologists have recognized the impact of predation on the evolution of morphology, the social systems and...

• Author(s): Paul A. Garber • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: PhysiologyFrom the Back CoverSouth America is home to perhaps the largest and most diversified radiation (some 200 species) of nonhuman primates on Earth. Gi...

• Author(s): Susan M. Ford • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThe Smallest Anthropoids: The Marmoset/Callimico Radiation represents a comprehensive examination of the callimico/ma...

• Author(s): Ian Tattersall • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - PrimatologyThe volume of studies on prosimian primates has, until recently, tended to lag well behind that of studies on the higher...

• Author(s): R. M. Sadler • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: General49 about six months ... to well over a year. If there is only one part of the year that is favourable, such as spring and early summer in the temperate ...

• Author(s): Holger Preuschoft • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralThe hand commonly is considered to have exerted great influence on the evolution of typically human characteristics, like upright po...

• Author(s): John G. Fleagle • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionThis volume brings together information about recent discoveries and current theories concerning the origin and early evolution of ...

• Author(s): Thomas R. Defler • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionFrom the Back CoverWoolly monkeys are large, attractive and widespread primates found throughout many parts of the Amazon basin. I...

• Author(s): I. R. Phillips • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyThe primates represent a diverse group with the phylogenetic relationships of the var- ious species reflected in their early embryonic...

• Author(s): Katja Pröbstl • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Medical Law & LegislationDas Buch stellt das aktuelle nationale Tierversuchsrecht ausführlich dar. Berücksichtigt werden dabei vor allem die Umsetzung der...

• Author(s): Jorg Peter Ewert • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Animals - Reptiles & AmphibiansVarious brain areas of mammals can phyletically be traced back to homologous structures in amphibians. The amphibian bra...

• Author(s): Angela Meder • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralDie Regenw{lder der afrikanischen Tropen sind die Heimat der Gorillas. IhremLeben und ihrem Verhalten gilt dieses Buch. Angela Meder hat diese Menschena...

• Author(s): A. A. M. Gribnau • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: AnatomyIn the past decennia nonhuman primates have been increasingly used for research purposes in various scientific fields. Much interest has been focuse...

• Author(s): Heinz Stephan • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Animals - MammalsThis first volume in the series on "Comparative Brain Research in Mammals" deals with the brains of Insectivora. The importance of Insectivor...

• Author(s): Callum F. Ross • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: NeuroscienceThe study ofanthropoid origins continues to be a lightning rod for research in paleoanthropology. Issuessurrounding anthropoid origins impact the...

• Author(s): A. B. Chiarelli • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - PrimatologyThe VIIIth International Congress of the International Prirnatological Society was held from 7 through 11 July 1980 in ...

• Author(s): David McFarland • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionCombining the study of animal minds, artificial minds, and human evolution, this book examine the advances mad...

• Author(s): J. Ganzhorn • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Developmental BiologyThe past decade has seen a steady increase in studies oflemur behavior and ecology. As a result, there is much novel inform...

• Author(s): L. Alterman • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - PrimatologyThe papers in this volume are representative of those presented at a conference entitled "Creatures of the Dark: The Noctur...

• Author(s): Lisa Gould • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyFrom the Back Cover In this comprehensive volume, written by experts in the field, information gathered on lemur ecology and adaptation ov...

• Author(s): Cristina Costa • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Humana • BISAC: Surgery - Cosmetic & ReconstructiveFrom the Back CoverDespite many technological challenges faced by the xenotransplantation field, many major advances hav...

• Author(s): H. D. Rijksen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralIn the 1960s, it was believed that no more than about 4,000 orang-utans remained in the wild. Consequentl...

• Author(s): Roy V. Sillitoe • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Humana • BISAC: NeuroscienceFrom the Back CoverThis volume considers the current techniques used by experts to study and measure cerebellar function. The chapters in this boo...

• Author(s): Carolin Funke • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralDue to their pronounced intraspecific variability and to difficulties in defining their evolutionary trends in mammalian phylogenies, peripheral blood ...

• Author(s): Nobuyuki Kawai • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - Ethology (Animal Behavior)From the Back CoverThis book provides a series of compelling evidence that shows that humans have innate ...

• Author(s): Dongsheng Duan • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Humana • BISAC: Life Sciences - Genetics & GenomicsFrom the Back CoverGene therapy offers many conceptual advantages to treat muscle diseases, especially various forms of ...

• Author(s): Manfred Brack • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: EpidemiologyThe contacts between man and nonhuman primates enable the transmission of mic- roorganisms from one species to the other. Such contact may occur a...