Note: Cover -- CONTENTS -- Tables & -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Adaptation, Evolution, and Systematics -- Adaptation -- Evolution -- Taxonomy and Systematics -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2. The Primate Body -- Size -- Cranial Anatomy -- The Brain and Senses -- The Trunk and Limbs -- Soft Tissues -- Growth and Development -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3. Primate Lives -- Primate Habitats -- Land Use -- Activity Patterns -- A Primate Day -- Primate Diets -- Locomotion -- Social Life -- Individuals, Groups, and Communities -- Why Primates Live in Groups -- Primate Life Histories -- Primate Communities -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4. Prosimians -- Strepsirhines -- Malagasy Strepsirhines -- Subfossil Malagasy Prosimians -- Adaptive Radiation of Malagasy Primates -- Galagos and Lorises -- Adaptive Radiation of Galagos and Lorises -- Phyletic Relationships of Strepsirhines -- Tarsiers -- Phyletic Relationships of Tarsiers -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5. New World Anthropoids -- Anatomy of Higher Primates -- Platyrrhines -- Adaptive Radiation of Platyrrhines -- Phyletic Relationships of Platyrrhines -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6. Old World Monkeys -- Catarrhine Anatomy -- Cercopithecoids -- Adaptive Radiation of Old World Monkeys -- Phyletic Relationships of Old World Monkeys -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7. Apes and Humans -- Hominoids -- Adaptive Radiation of Hominoids -- Phyletic Relationships of Hominoids -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8. Primate Communities -- Primate Biogeography -- Ecology and Biogeography -- Comparing Primate Communities -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9. Primate Adaptations -- Effects of Size -- Adaptations to Diet -- Locomotor Adaptations -- Anatomical Correlates of Social Organization -- Adaptation and Phylogeny -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10. The Fossil Record -- Geological Time -- Fossils and Fossilization -- Paleoenvironments. , Reconstructing Behavior -- Paleobiogeography -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11. Primate Origins -- Archontans„Primates and Other Mammals -- Plesiadapiforms -- Adaptive Radiation of Plesiadapiforms -- Plesiadapiforms and Primates -- The Phylogenetic Origins of Primates among the Archonta -- The Adaptive Origin of Primates -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12. Fossil Prosimians -- The First Modern Primates -- The Origin of Prosimians -- Adapoids -- Are Adapoids Strepsirhines? -- Fossil Lorises and Galagos -- Omomyoids -- Omomyoids, Tarsiers, and Haplorhines -- Adaptive Radiations of Eocene Prosimians -- Phyletic Relationships of Adapids and Omomyids -- Bibliography -- Chapter 13. Early Anthropoids -- Eocene Anthropoids from Asia -- Eocene and Oligocene Anthropoids from Africa and Arabia -- Other North African and Arabian Early Anthropoids -- Early Anthropoid Adaptations -- Phyletic Relationships of Early Anthropoids -- Prosimian Origins of Anthropoids -- Solving Anthropoid Origins -- Bibliography -- Chapter 14. Fossil Platyrrhines -- The Platyrrhine Fossil Record -- The Earliest Platyrrhines -- The Patagonian Platyrrhines -- A More Modern Community -- Pleistocene Platyrrhines -- Caribbean Primates -- Summary of Fossil Platyrrhines -- Platyrrhine Origins -- Bibliography -- Chapter 15. Fossil Apes -- Latest Oligocene to Middle Miocene Apes from Africa -- Adaptive Radiation of Proconsulids -- Phyletic Relationships of Proconsulids and Other African Miocene Apes -- Eurasian Fossil Apes -- The Evolution of Living Hominoids -- Bibliography -- Chapter 16. Fossil Old World Monkeys -- Victoriapithecids: The Earliest Old World Monkeys -- Fossil Cercopithecids -- Summary of Fossil Cercopithecoids -- Bibliography -- Chapter 17. Hominids, the Bipedal Primates -- Australopithecines -- Australopithecine Adaptations and Hominid Origins -- Phyletic Relationships of Early Hominids. , Early Homo -- Late Homo -- Human Phylogeny -- Humans as an Adaptive Radiation -- Bibliography -- Chapter 18. Patterns in Primate Evolution -- Primate Adaptive Radiations -- Patterns in Primate Phylogeny -- Primate Evolution at the Species Level -- Mosaic Evolution -- Primate Extinctions -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Classification of Order Primates -- Index.