Fossil primates /
xvi, 299 p. : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. - (Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ) Content notes : 1. Introduction: primates in evolutionary time --
2. Primate taxonomy --
3. Fossils and fossilization --
4. The world of the past --
5. The lifeways of extinct animals --
6. Evolutionary processes and the pattern of primate evolution --
7. Primate origins --
8. The Paleocene primate radiation --
9. The Eocene primate radiation --
10. The Malagasy primate radiation --
11. The Oligocene bottleneck --
12. Rise of the anthropoids --
13. The platyrrhine radiation --
14. The Miocene hominoid radiation --
15. The cercopithecoid radiation --
16. Late Cenozoic climate changes --
17. Conclusions.
