As our closest living relatives, monkeys and apes hold a special appeal for humans. Their lively inquiring minds, superb agility, and manipulative skills, that so remind us of ourselves, have evolved over tens of millions of years and have their origins deep in the fossil record. This natural history, clearly written by two distinguished primatologists, provides a basic and fully-illustrated introduction to the order of primates. It answers such questions as how and why this remarkable process of adaptive change took place, what features of primate primitive anatomy lent themselves to such striking changes, what were the origins of their sophisticated social activities, and what are our relationships, as humans, to these animals and their ancestors. The Natural History of the Primates introduces the order and describes its general characteristics and distribution, reviews the fossil record on primate origins, and describes anatomical details, and social behavior. The heart of the book offers specific profiles of the individual primate species—among them the lemurs of Madagascar, the bushbabies of Africa, and the marmosets of South America, the impudent capuchin monkeys, the highly social baboons, the striking black-and-white colobus, and, familiar to us all, the gibbons, orangutans, chimpanzees, and gorillas. A final chapter focuses on Homo sapiens and its precursors. The book concludes with a helpful glossary, a list of further readings, and references.

The Natural History of the Primates

Science & Math

Napier, John Russell

Napier, P.H.

Biological Sciences

Mit Pr

Considers current knowledge of the evolution, structure, and function of hands and discusses fingerprints, fossil remains, handedness, palm lines, gestures, and tool using and tool making, both prehistoric and modern

Hands

Pantheon Books

Bigfoot is my collective name for the giant-sized man-like creatures that are believed to inhabit the boreal forests of north-west America and in the snowfields of the Himalayas. I am using the American Indian name Sasquatch for the Bigfoot in British Columbia, across the 49th parallel in the north-west states of the USA and in Northern California. In the Himalayas the creature is called the Abominable Snowman or the Yeti. Although Sasquatches and Yetis differ considerably in detail of their structure and habits, both are, very broadly speaking, man-like inasmuch as they are said to walk on two legs and are credited with a human shape. The footprints of both geographical varieties are indubitably big - hence the name Bigfoot.

Bigfoot; The Yeti and Sasquatch in Myth and Reality

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

E.P.Dutton

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