The Evolution of the Primate Hand Anatomical, Developmental, Functional, and Paleontological Evidence /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kivell, Tracy L. (Editor), Lemelin, Pierre (Editor), Richmond, Brian G. (Editor), Schmitt, Daniel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Animal ecology.; Evolutionary biology.; Anthropology.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Animal Ecology.

This book demonstrates how the primate hand combines both primitive and novel morphology, both general function with specialization, and both a remarkable degree of diversity within some clades and yet general similarity across many others. Across the chapters, different authors have addressed a var...