The Smallest Anthropoids The Marmoset/Callimico Radiation
(Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects)
by Susan M. Ford, Leila M. Porter, Lesa C. Davis(Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects)
Pages: 508 pages
Publisher: --
Edition: 1st., September 14, 2009
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1441902929
ISBN-13: 978-1441902924
Description
This volume represents a comprehensive examination of the newly recognized callimico/marmoset clade, which includes the smallest anthropoid primates on earth. It will explore these diminutive primates in their entirety, with sections on phylogeny, taxonomy and functional anatomy, behavioral ecology, reproductive physiology, as well as address critical conservation issues and the need for conservation action. The topics specifically selected for this volume are pivotal for understanding the evolutionary adaptations and divergence of any primate group, and especially one as diverse and curious as this. The discoveries of new taxa over the last fifteen years along with new genetic data have transformed this group from three genera (one with only a distant relationship to the others) and five recognized species, to five closely related genera, comprising at least 22 species. This volume will be the first to synthesize data on these newly recognized taxa.
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