Primate Biogeography Progress and Prospects /

• Main Authors: Lehman, Shawn M. (Author), Fleagle, John G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Historical geology.; Paleontology.; Ecology.; Evolutionary biology.; Zoology.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Historical Geology.

Biogeography, the study of the distribution of organisms over the surface of the earth, plays a central role in our understanding of virtually all aspects of the biology of primates and other animals, including systematics, mechanisms of speciation, population genetics and demography. The distributi...