Pp. ix, 218; 123 text-figures (line-drawings), 12 black-and-white photo-plates. Publisher's original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, red pictorial dust jacket, lettered in white, sm 4to. The purpose of this work is to demonstrate how a variety of statistical, physical, and engineering techniques can be applied to the study of bones of living and fossil primates in order to "capture the functionally important aspects" of shape and structure in human evolution (from the jacket flap). No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Form and Pattern in Human Evolution

Politics & Social Sciences

Oxnard, Charles E.

Anthropology

Univ of Chicago Pr

Fossils, Teeth and Sex: New Perspectives on Human Evolution

Hong Kong Univ Pr

<p>An ambitious and original attempt to quantify, analyze, and compare the environment, behavior, and morphology of prosimian primates on a global scale. A species-by-species presentation, along with superb drawings of the animals and graphs showing complex combinations of variables, is put to the service of exploring the relationship of animal structures to animal life-styles. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.</p>

Animal Lifestyles and Anatomies: The Case of the Prosimian Primates

Science & Math

Crompton, Robin H.

Lieberman, Susan S.

Biological Sciences

Univ of Washington Pr

The order of man: A biomathematical anatomy of the primates

Hong Kong University Press

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