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Primate life history and evolution

Wiley-Liss eBooksPublished 1 January 1990
C. Jean DeRousseau
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Abstract

Partial table of contents: EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS AND LIFE HISTORY. Natural Selection and Developmental Constraints: External Versus Internal Determinants of Order in Nature (P. Alberch). THE STRUCTURE OF LIFE HISTORY ACROSS SPECIES. Evolutionary Trends in Primate Growth and Development (E. Watts). Life Histories in Fossil Species. Early Hominid Development and Life History (T. Bromage). LIFE HISTORY PROCESSES WITHIN SPECIES. Reproduction ''on the Ground.'' Intrapopulation Variation in Life-History Parameters (D. Sade). Hard Tissue Dynamics and the Life Cycle. The Relationship Between Functional Loading and Bone Architecture (L. Lanyon). Dynamic Morphology: Growth, Life History, and Ecology in Primate Evolution (B. Shea). Index.

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MedicineMathematicsEarth and Planetary Sciences